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. @RandPaul has released his latest Festivus Report. Our government wasted over $54 billion in taxpayer dollars in 2020. https://www.paul.senate.gov/sites/default/files/page-attachments/2020FestivusReport.pdf
Some highlights:
- The Department of Defense potentially lost up to $715 million in equipment designated for Syrians fighting
ISIS
- The Department of Defense spent $174 million supplying drones to the Afghan National Army and then subsequently lost them
- The Department of Defense potentially lost up to $715 million in equipment designated for Syrians fighting
ISIS
- The Department of Defense spent $174 million supplying drones to the Afghan National Army and then subsequently lost them
- The Federal Aviation Admin spent over $19 million rebuilding a taxiway for airplanes on Nantucket Island, a posh summer vacation destination for America’s rich and famous
- Mismanagement by the Dept of Veterans Affairs
resulted in $3.5 billion in delinquent undelivered orders
- Mismanagement by the Dept of Veterans Affairs
resulted in $3.5 billion in delinquent undelivered orders
- Researchers used funds from NIH grants totaling $31 million on a study they allegedly faked to make it look like there was a connection between e-cigarettes and heart attacks
- U.S. Agency for International Development is spending
$37M to help deal with truant Filipino youth
- U.S. Agency for International Development is spending
$37M to help deal with truant Filipino youth
The craziest example of government of waste? Researchers spent funds from National Science Foundation grants worth $1.5 million to walk lizards on a treadmill!
