US EditionRand Paul's 'Festivus' report calls out cocaine dogs, COVID influencers and a mountain of debt
Sen. Rand Paul exposes $1.6 trillion in federal waste, including $1.22 trillion in debt interest and unusual experiments, underscoring ongoing government spending issues.
- On Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., unveiled his 11th annual Festivus Report, using the holiday spoof to catalogue federal pet-project spending.
- Against the backdrop of soaring debt, Paul said 'This year' he is spotlighting government waste amid rising federal debt, which he says has jumped to nearly $40 trillion from roughly $36 trillion, reflecting his fiscal-hawk stance and votes against spending.
- The report calculates a total of $1,639,135,969,608, which Paul says includes $1.22 trillion in interest payments and funds for dog cocaine experiments and vaccine campaigns.
- Paul said the report aims to bolster his fiscal-hawk argument as he criticized Congress for funding pet projects while praising the Trump administration's $5 billion foreign aid cancellation as limited progress.
- Notably, Paul highlights over $40 million to social media influencers promoting COVID-19 vaccines and over $5 million for ice-skating drag queens and Ukrainian influencers, along with schools spending nearly $200 billion in COVID relief on unusual contracts.
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Cocaine Dogs And Monkey ‘Plinko’: Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul Airs 2025 ‘Festivus’ Grievances
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) continued his annual holiday tradition on Tuesday, releasing the “Festivus Report 2025” to highlight what he classifies as $1.6 trillion in wasteful federal spending. Drawing inspiration from the “Seinfeld” holiday characterized by the “Airing of Grievances,” Paul’s report targets a mix of massive budgetary line items—chief among them interest on the […] Cocaine Dogs And Monkey ‘Plinko’: Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul Airs 2025…
Sen. Paul’s 2025 Festivus Report chronicles $1.6 trillion in government waste
by WorldTribune Staff, December 24, 2025 Real World News Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday released his 2025 Festivus Report which he said documents $1,639,135,969,608 in government waste. The report details how taxpayer funds go to such projects as teaching ferrets to binge drink alcohol, dosing dogs with cocaine, and collecting saliva samples and […]
2025 Festivus report highlights money spent for "brutal experiments" on animals
HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) - Senator Rand Paul has released his annual 'Festivus' report highlighting over $1.6 trillion in government spending. This includes over $1.22 trillion in interest payments on previous debt and what Senator Paul describes as hundreds of millions in tax dollars funding labs to conduct "brutal experiments on dogs, monkeys and rats." In [...]
Paul's annual Festivus report calls out $1.6 trillion in government waste
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) released his annual “Festivus Report” on Tuesday, spotlighting over $1.6 trillion in wasteful government spending. Between discovering Veterans Affairs cash spent on teaching teenage ferrets how to binge drink to discovering $14.6 million spent on having monkeys play a Price Is Right-like video game, the Kentucky fiscal hawk bared all the quirky government waste on Tuesday. “No matter how much taxpayer money Washington burn…
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