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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., calls out Biden administration for spending over a trillion taxpayer dollars on “government waste” this year, including on a bearded lady cabaret show, Arabic Sesame Street and “girl-focused climate action.”
The Senator from Kentucky released its annual “Festivus” report detailing the various ways the current administration spent taxpayer dollars over the course of the year.
The 2024 Festivus Waste Report found that the Biden-Harris administration spent over $1 trillion this year, including a $10,000 grant for “Beards on Ice” — an ice skating drag show about climate change put on by the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, an independent organization described as a “queer cabaret art organization”.
Additionally, the Agency for International Development (USAID) spent $20 million on a Sesame Street spin-off series in Iraq called “Ahlan Simsim,” in an effort to promote “inclusivity” and “mutual respect.”
Members of the Bearded Ladies Cabaret cross Broad St. before a march of supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in Philadelphia, Pa., on the first day of the Democratic National Convention, July 25, 2016. (Tom Williams)
About $1.50 was spent experimenting with how different species, such as young female kittens, responded to nausea.
According to the report, the researchers would strap the kittens to a table, where they would turn them in several directions and drill holes in their skulls to keep them in place — “and it’s all done with your money,” Paul writes in the report. . “More than a million and a half dollars of that.”
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reportedly gave New York University (NYU) more than $400,000 to research whether solitary rats seek cocaine more than rats in a positive environment, while the Department of the Interior (DOI) allocated $12 million to financing complex pickleball in Las Vegas, according to the report.
Basma, the Muppet from Sesame Street’s Ahlan Sims, speaks on stage during the 2019 Concordia Annual Summit – Day 1 at the Grand Hyatt New York on September 23, 2019 in New York City. (Riccardo Savi)
“Now, did the government really need to spend nearly half a million dollars to prove that social isolation and starvation can lead to increased drug use? One thing is for sure, we must end this rat wheel of waste!” Paul wrote in the report.
The State Department spent $3 million on “Girls-Focused Climate Action” in Brazil, a program allegedly designed to “empower young women to become climate leaders by integrating equity and inclusivity into environmental activism,” the report said, detailing the grant.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., the Senate’s ranking member for homeland security and government affairs, blocked a bill Wednesday that would have allowed local law enforcement agencies to track drones. (Jose Luis Magana)
“While average American taxpayers struggle to pay their rent, their hard-earned dollars are ironically being funneled into more real estate,” the report said, referring to Biden struggling to spend $10 billion to maintain and furnish buildings that were nearly completely empty.
The Department of Energy (DOE) has given automakers $15.5 billion to push the industry into the electric vehicle (EV) sector.while another $388,000 was given to “Magic in the United States,” a podcast that discusses how magical beliefs and practices developed in the U.S.
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The senator also mentioned that the Biden administration gave $2.1 million to fund the Paraguayan border: “Nothing says ‘America First’ like securing someone else’s border,” Paul wrote.
