{"id":1786105,"date":"2022-12-25T06:06:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T11:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1786105"},"modified":"2022-12-25T06:48:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T11:48:58","slug":"here-are-the-crazy-things-the-government-wasted-your-money-on-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/here-are-the-crazy-things-the-government-wasted-your-money-on-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Are the Crazy Things the Government Wasted Your Money on This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhere-are-the-crazy-things-the-government-wasted-your-money-on-this-year%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1786105&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3e1873eb-275d-4c47-bf3f-0fcf2f7d3d3a.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>Republican Senator Rand Paul is out with his\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paul.senate.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/page-attachments\/Festivus%202023%20Clean%20AJS%20edits%205p.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">annual Festivus report<\/a><span>, detailing how much taxpayer money the federal government wasted throughout the year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"isPasted\">&#8220;This year, I am highlighting a whopping $482,276,543,907 of waste, including a <span>steroid-induced hamster fight club, a study to see if kids love their pets, and a study of the\u00a0<\/span><span>romantic patterns of parrots. No matter how much money\u2019s already been wasted, politicians\u00a0<\/span><span>keep demanding even more,&#8221; Paul states in the report. &#8220;<\/span><span>As always, the path to fiscal responsibility is often a lonely journey, but as I\u2019ve done\u00a0<\/span><span>in years past, I will continue my fight against government waste this holiday season. So\u00a0<\/span><span>before we get to the Feats of Strength, it\u2019s time for my Airing of (spending) Grievances!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The list of waste includes u<\/span><span>sing COVID relief funds to construct an 11,000 square foot spa, u<\/span><span>sing COVID relief funds to purchase luxury cars, u<\/span><span>nused hotel rooms for illegal immigrants, s<\/span><span>tudying the romance between parrots, s<\/span><span>tudying the social life and collective intelligence of ants, u<\/span><span>sing mice to study racial aggression and much more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As if spending your money to research how <span>humans feel and express love may sound\u00a0<\/span><span>ridiculous enough, the government is now\u00a0<\/span><span>funding research to see how parrots express\u00a0<\/span><span>love,&#8221; the report found. &#8220;<\/span><span>In fact, the Department of Health and\u00a0<\/span><span>Human Services (HHS) granted Cornell\u00a0<\/span><span>University $689,222 to study social\u00a0<\/span><span>communication in parrots, studying patterns\u00a0<\/span><span>such as social outcomes, if they kiss, and how\u00a0<\/span><span>males make sexual advances.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This marks the eighth edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Festivus?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Festivus<\/a> Report as I continue working to alert the American people to how their federal government uses their hard-earned money. Read it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JeLZjzzDxG\">https:\/\/t.co\/JeLZjzzDxG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eGQIaiGG6i\">pic.twitter.com\/eGQIaiGG6i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenRandPaul\/status\/1606306498115575808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Good morning everyone and welcome to everyone\u2019s favorite holiday &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Festivus?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Festivus<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g8xM8QER9y\">pic.twitter.com\/g8xM8QER9y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/1606308003740667905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The report comes less than 24-hours after the Senate, with help from Republicans, passed a monstrous $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill packed with pork. It also passed in the House.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I attempted to hold both parties accountable by forcing votes on these rules but per usual, a majority in the Senate &#8211; including Republicans &#8211; chose to run up the debt, ignore our own budget rules, and abuse your tax dollars. The American people don\u2019t want this.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/1606023510769274881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I wonder how long it would take the clerk to read this\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iaphBzTEsS\">pic.twitter.com\/iaphBzTEsS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/1605288779660812289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Senator Rand Paul is out with his\u00a0annual Festivus report, detailing how much taxpayer money the federal government wasted throughout the year.\u00a0 &#8220;This year, I am highlighting a whopping $482,276,543,907 of waste, including a steroid-induced hamster fight club, a study to see if kids love their pets, and a study of the\u00a0romantic patterns of parrots. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1762401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[6962,10905,5458,11087,5045,6175,4755,3819,5116,3686,11669,5734,6010],"class_list":["post-1786105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-the","tag-are","tag-bongino","tag-crazy","tag-government","tag-here","tag-money","tag-report","tag-things","tag-this","tag-wasted","tag-year","tag-your"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1762401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}