Boot shows, Arab Sesame Street, lonely rats: GOP senator details Biden spending $1T on ‘government waste’

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., calls The Biden administration this year for spending more than a trillion taxpayer dollars on “government waste,” including a bearded lady cabaret show, Arab Sesame Street, and “girl-centric climate action.”

The Senator from Kentucky released its annual “Festivus” report detailing the various ways the current administration spends taxpayer dollars throughout the year.

The 2024 Festivus Waste Report found that the Biden-Harris administration spent more than $1 trillion this year, including a $10,000 grant to “Beards on Ice,” the Bearded Ladies Cabaret climate change ice skating show. described a “queer cabaret arts organization”.

In addition, the Agency for International Development (USAID) spent $20 million on a Sesame Street spin-off show, Ahlan Simsim, to promote “inclusion” and “mutual respect” in Iraq.

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Members of the Bearded Ladies Cabaret perform on Broad St. before a march of supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders on the first day of the Democratic National Convention, July 25, 2016, in Philadelphia, I-Vt. (Tom Williams)

About $1.50 was spent to test how different species, such as young female cats, responded to motion sickness.

According to the report, the researchers strapped the kittens to a table where they rotated in multiple directions and drilled holes in their skulls to hold them in place — “and all this is done with your money,” Paul wrote in the report. . “More than a million and a half dollars of that.”

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has reportedly awarded more than $400,000 to New York University (NYU) to study whether solitary rats seek cocaine more than rats in a positive environment, with the Department of the Interior (DOI) providing $12 million in funding. acid ball complex in Las Vegas, according to the report.

Basma, Muppet from Ahlan Simsim, Sesame Street, 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 have to spend nearly half a million dollars to test whether social isolation and hunger could lead to increased drug use? One thing’s for sure, we need to stop this rat wheel!” Paul wrote in the report.

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The State Department is reportedly spending $3 million on “Girl-Centered Climate Action” in Brazil. climate leaders by integrating equity and inclusion into environmental activism,” the report says, citing grant details.

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“As average American taxpayers struggle to pay rent, their hard-earned dollars ironically go into more real estate,” the report said, citing Biden’s spending of $10 billion to maintain and furnish buildings that are almost entirely vacant.

The Department of Energy (DOE) has given automakers $15.5 billion to boost the industry electric vehicle (EV) sector$388,000 more given to “Magic in the United States,” a podcast discussing how magical beliefs and practices have evolved in the United States

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The senator also recalled the Biden administration’s $2.1 million in funding for the Paraguayan border: “Nothing says ‘America First’ like protecting someone else’s border,” Paul wrote.