For the first time in 50 years, President Trump deployed a pocket rescission, cancelling $5 billion in foreign aid and international organization funding. While it’s a good start, it’s just a drop in the bucket. The Congressional Budget Office predicts we will add an average of $23.9 trillion in debt annually for the next decade. The U.S. government will add over $6.53 billion of debt every single day for the next ten years. We borrow over $272 million every hour, we borrow $4.54 million every minute, and we borrow over $75,000 every second.
This year, I’m spotlighting a jaw-dropping amount of government waste, the kind that makes you wonder if anyone in Washington has ever heard the word “priorities.” A grand total of$1,639,135,969,608, which includes $1.22 trillion in interest payments on the debt.
We discovered cash going toward experiments teaching ferrets to binge drink alcohol and dosing dogs with cocaine (again). Then there were taxpayer dollars spent on safe spaces at a private university. It wouldn’t be a Festivus Waste celebration without mentioning the $2.1 million spent for researchers to collect saliva samples and survey partiers at EDM clubs and festivals in New York City about their drug use. White Coat Waste helped us uncover hundreds of millions of your hard-earned tax dollars funding labs, gain-of-function research, and brutal experiments on dogs, monkeys, and rats. That includes over $13.8 million on beagle experiments, $14,643,280 to make monkeys play a “Price Is Right” inspired video game, and so much more.
No matter how much taxpayer money Washington burns through, politicians can’t help but demand more. Fiscal responsibility may not be the most crowded road, but it’s one I’ve walked year after year, and this holiday season will be no different. So, before we get to the Feats of Strength, it’s time for my Airing of (Spending) Grievances.
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/FESTIVUS-2025-FINAL.pdf
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