Unfortunately, the Federal government has gotten so big that the wasting of billions of taxpayer dollars every day grows and grows. These expenditures do not feed the nation’s hungry, shelter the homeless, help the drug addicted or make the country better in any way. It is spent on frivolous projects and programs that are so narrow and corrupt that the only ones getting any benefit are the unneeded government employees trying to justify their job and the direct benefactors/special interests/NGOs receive those funds that produce nothing of value.
Every year Senator Rand Paul publishes his Annual Festivus report which this year documented an amazing and despicable $1,639,135,969,608 of useless Washington government spending.. These are dollars and projects that are inane, useless, unneeded, and contribute to a national debt that is rapidly approaching a mind boggling $40,000,000,000,000. Let’s do a little math based on this wasting of $1.6 TRILLION:
$1.6 TRILLION could have fed the 770,000 homeless Americans three meals a day for 645 years.
$1.6 TRILLION could have provided one year of drug addiction treatment for 245,000 Americans struggling with drug addiction for one year, possibly saving some of the 100,000+ Americans who die every year from drug addiction.
$1.6 TRILLION could have provided a tax rebate worth over $10,000 for every American taxpayer.
Instead, the Washington political class spent $1.6 TRILLION on the following types of programs and projects:
$20 billion were sent to Argentina to bailout their financial chaos.
$14,643,280 was spent to train monkeys to play a “Price Is Right” type game.
The Department of Health and Human Services spent $1.5 million on a Tik Tok “innovative multilevel strategy” to reduce drug use in ‘Latinx’ communities through celebrity influencer campaigns.
The Department of Energy spent $244,252 to “Stand For Peace In Islamabad” to produce a cartoon show that teaches kids in Pakistan how to fight climate change.
The State Department spent $1.5 million to promote American made movies, TV shows and video games overseas.
Health and Human Services (HHS) is spending $1.9 million on a “hybrid mobile phone family intervention” that is supposed to reduce childhood obesity in Latino families in LA county, not black families, not white families, not families in Chicago or anywhere else, just Latino families in Los Angeles.
HHS spent over $40 million on “influencers” to promote getting vaccinated against Covid for racial and minority groups, not everyone, just minority groups.
HHS is giving almost $3 million to the University of Michigan to study the effect of screen time on parent-child relationships.
The USDA spent $141,518 to create a “resilient and equitable” local food network for culturally relevant food for low income LGBT people of color in the Bronx and Brooklyn.
HHS spent $6.9 million using data to analyze and model trauma and surgery outcomes in, wait for it, sub-Saharan Africa.
HHS gave $3.3 million to Northwestern University so that they could hire 15 people to erect “scientific neighborhoods,” install “safe space ambassadors,” and form committees to “dismantle systemic racism.”
HHS seems to waste a lot of taxpayer money since they also spent $936,000 on marketing campaigns, advisory boards, and engagement strategies to target niche subcultures only in Los Angeles to address STD testing and treatment, with subcultures including “bear/cub”, “drag queen” and “queer punk rock” groups.
HHS spent $2.1 million for researchers to collect saliva samples and conduct surveys at Electronic Dance Music clubs and festivals in NYC about drug usage.
USAID spent a whopping $54 million to collect bat coronaviruses and sent them to the Wuhan laboratory in China for gain-of-function experiments, a lab that eventually caused the Covid pandemic, a pandemic funded by American taxpayers.
The NIH extended funding for Fauci’s disgusting and inhumane beagle experiments at a cost of $13.8 million.
The NIH spent $5,215,216 to dose dogs with cocaine, another disgusting American taxpayer funded expense.
The Department of Veterans Affairs spent $1,079,360 on teaching teenage ferrets to binge drink alcohol.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) spent $497,200 on a ‘Video Game Challenge” for kids.
The Department of Defense continues to spend $77 million a year on a dolphin training program.
USAID spent $2 million for "gender affirming care” in Guatemala.
The NSF committed to spend $2,494,321 for programs that promote insects as “food for humans.”
The Department Of Defense spent $2,818,461 for an effort to put aborted human fetal tissue into humanized mice.
$200 billion was spent by schools under the Covid umbrella that was spent on things such as hotel rooms at Caesars Palace, the renting of MLB stadiums and ice cream trucks.
NASA overspent by $1.8 billion on a space shuttle that was six years behind schedule and did not work when it stranded astronauts in space.
Biden's Department of Transportation budgeted $7.5 billion to fund electric vehicle charging stations across the country but ended up installing only 68 stations that were actually working.
HHS spent $22.6 billion on illegal immigrant programs that paid for things like furniture, car repairs, and home down payments along with free food, free shelter, free medical care and free cell phone service for illegal immigrants.
The Federal government sent $2 million to a San Diego hospital to run a gender affirming care center that encourages and helps gender transition surgeries for kids.
The Federal government sent $2 million to a tiny town in Alaska that has only 67 residents, resulting in a per resident cost of almost $30,000.
$700,000 was given to an organization that supports protest rallies against Trump, gas stoves, and other ultra liberal hates.
This is NOT a comprehensive list of wasteful spending. The complete report with all of the the disgusting wastes of money can be accessed at:
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/FESTIVUS-2025-FINAL.pdf
As a result of these types of idiotic expenditures over the decades, the country and its financial viability is facing the following crises:
$1,220,000,000,000 was spent on interest payments to service the national debt in 2025.
If the Federal government had run a balanced budget over the decades, and thus not running up annual trillion dollar interest payments, every taxpayer would get back on average would see their annual Federal tax bill reduced by over $7,900.
Every hour the Federal government needs to borrow $272 million to support its deficit spending budget, $4.54 every minute, and $75,000 every second.
At some point in time, there will not be enough investors in the world to continually cover the ever escalating Federal Government deficit spending. At some point the interest paid on the national debt will account for the largest Federal government expenditure.
And at some point, if history is any guide, the Federal government will start printing more money which will eventually result in runaway/hyper inflation, ever expanding poverty, and the eventual collapse of the economy and our democracy.
And what will we have to show for a collapsed economy and extinguished democracy: saliva swabs out of dance clubs in the Bronx, successful sex operation transitions in Guatemala, drunk and doped up animals, a cartoon in Pakistan, and thousands of other useless reports, studies, and projects. Hardly seems worth the incredible financial and freedom costs we are quickly going to have to reckon with.
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