Let's Play DOGE Ball

By Robin Itzler

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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is going to help stop insanity spending. Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul highlights in his 2024 Festivus Report $1 TRILLION of government waste using OUR tax dollars. Here are a few examples and please note, we are NOT listing the torturous experiments performed on animals, but it’s in Senator Rand’s report:

• Department of the Interior: spent $12 million on a Las Vegas pickleball complex.
• State Department: gave $4,840,082 to Ukrainian influencers reported as “KYIV, Ukraine public affairs—Influencer Staff.”
• Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): awarded a $2 million grant to study kids looking at Facebook ads about food.
• The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA): spent $365,000 to promote circuses in city parks.
• Department of State (DOS): spent $3 Million for ‘Girl-Centered Climate Action’ in Brazil.
• Department of State (DOS): allocated $32,596.12 for break dancing and another $330,000 to fund censorship of non-liberal and conservative media.
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): spent $2.24 million on COVID experiments.
• Agency for International Development (USAID): $20 million on a Sesame Street spin-off show in Iraq, titled "Ahlan Simsim," to promote "inclusion" and "mutual respect."
• Department of Energy (DOE): gave automakers $15.5 billion to push the industry into the electric vehicle sector. 
• Another $388,000 was given to "Magic in the United States," a podcast discussing how magical beliefs and practices have evolved in the U.S. 
• Biden/Harris Grant: $10,000 to “Beards on Ice,” an ice skating drag show on climate change put on by the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, a self-described “queer cabaret arts organization.”
• Biden/Harris Grant: $2.1 million to fund Paraguay's border.  You have to see the irony in that. 
  
• Other: $2 billion spent to maintain empty office buildings.  

More here:  The Details Are in on How the Feds Are Blowing Your Tax Dollars -  The complaints are documented in a lengthy "Festivus" report spanning 41-pages.  "This year, I am highlighting a whopping $1,008,313,329,626.12. That’s over $1 trillion in government waste, including things like ice-skating drag queens, a $12 Million Las Vegas pickleball complex, $4,840,082 on Ukrainian influencers, and more! No matter how much money the government has wasted, politicians keep demanding even more," Paul said.  This kind of wasteful spending is so obviously ridiculous it's entirely too easy to think fixing it will be easy.  And entirely too many think so.  Let's not be delusional, the left, and their RINO paramours will fight for each and every one of these wasteful programs and more.  The next two years will be an ugly fight, and it will be going on daily.  

This is what the sane in America need to focus on.  This isn't just our money!  With the vastness of our national debt it's our children's, our grand children's, and our great grandchildren's money, and that's if the nation can survive this insanity.