The US government wasted more than $1 trillion on kooky frivolous projects this past year — including by using taxpayer money to turn rats into coke fiends, according to Sen. Rand Paul’s annual “Festivus Report.’’
The Kentucky Republican’s anti-waste probe — named in honor of the day before Christmas Eve holiday immortalized by TV’s classic “Seinfeld’’ — revealed the truly bizarre “pet projects’’ approved by “members of both political parties” in 2024.
It’s trillion-dollar-plus pricetag was Paul’s highest annual tally since President Biden took office in 2021.
One of the most mindboggling spending line items involved the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Health and Human Services, which spent $419,470 on a New York University study to “determine if lonely rats seek cocaine more than happy rats.”
Paul’s report does not note if scientists were able to determine which rats went for the blow.
Perhaps more disturbing is the more than $2 million in government grants given to Cornell University over the past two years to infect cats with COVID-19 — and then kill them when experiments on whether the felines can transmit the disease are done.
“Since January 2022, Dr. [Anthony] Fauci’s NIAID and the USDA have given Cornell University $2.24 million to study whether felines can contract and transmit COVID-19 … Not only is this a waste of over a million in taxpayer dollars, but the experiments have led to the suffering and death of over thirty cats,” the report states.
Another questionable use of taxpayer money came from the National Endowment for the Arts, which awarded a $10,000 grant to ice-skating drag queens.
The Bearded Ladies Cabaret – a self-described “queer cabaret arts organization” – won the dough in support of its climate change-themed ice-skating performances.
The so-called “Beards on Ice” show features “polar bears, drag queens, and a character dubbed ‘Nonbinary Parental Guardian Nature’” and hopes to bring climate awareness to anyone attending the performance, according to the report.
The NEA was also pilloried by Paul for spending $385,000 in federal dollars since 2015 on art displays for New York’s High Line park, including $40,000 on a 16-foot-tall pigeon sculpture that will soon grace the popular Manhattan strolling location. --->READ MORE HERE
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