Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul on Wednesday released a “2021 Festivus Report” exposing in detail a total of $52,598,515,585 worth of government waste.
Senator Paul, who is the chairman of the Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight subcommittee and a member of the Governmental Affairs Committee released this seventh edition of the Festivus report in seven consecutive years.
The report states “Happy Festivus! How can 2021 already be coming to a close? What a year it’s been. — it’s safe to say that some big changes have occurred since last year’s Festivus Report. Mask mandates, travel restrictions and lock-downs were lifted across many parts of the country. President Biden was inaugurated. Inflation has skyrocketed. The Kardashians finally ended their TV show after 14 years. ‘Dad bod’ was officially added to Webster’s Dictionary. And how about the Federal government? Well, unsurprisingly, it managed to keep spending money we don’t have on things we don’t need.” It states
Sen. Paul noted that The reported government waste of $52,598,515,585, comes with an average taxpayer bill of $15,332. According to the report, the federal government “wasted the taxes of 3,430,636 people.”
“That is roughly the population of Los Angeles, California; Chicago, Illinois; or 50.74 times the size of Senator Paul’s hometown of Bowling Green, KY,” the report adds.
The areas spending were broken into different sections like COVID spending, Afghanistan spending, some very obvious wastes like $11.3 million spent by the USAID on telling the people of Vietnam “to stop burning their trash,” millions of dollars given to places like Wilson center
The report adds that $40,316,270,000 (and counting) was wasted on COVID-19, including $4.29 billion in “bad loans out of the Paycheck Protection Program,” and $36 billion in “wasted unemployment insurance payments,” and $1.27 million in “COVID relief funds for students who actually weren’t enrolled” in one Baltimore school.
There are a ton of shocking accounts in this report that Senator Rand Paul has exposed. You can read the full report here
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