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HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – Senator Rand Paul has released his annual “airing of grievances” about wasteful government spending in his 2024 Festivus report. In his report, named after the ...
(The Center Square) – Congress and federal agencies wasted more than $1 trillion of taxpayer money in 2024, according to an analysis published by U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY, who has long called ...
Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) is no newcomer to pointing out silly ways that the federal government wastes taxpayer dollars—like the time the National Institutes of Health spent over $300,000 to ...
Since 1976, when the United States budget process was revised by the Budget Act of 1974 [1] the United States Federal Government has had funding gaps on 22 occasions. [2] [3] [4] Funding gaps did not lead to government shutdowns prior to 1980, when President Jimmy Carter requested opinions from Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti on funding gaps and the Antideficiency Act.
Donald Trump said DOGE would help to "dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures and restructure federal agencies". He also stated that DOGE will work with the Office of Management and Budget to address what he called "massive waste and fraud" in government spending. [161]
When Coburn retired, he passed the baton to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), whose latest edition of the “Festivus” report detailed an astonishing $900,000,000,000 in wasteful federal spending, ...
Preventing waste, fraud, and abuse related to federal spending; Identifying and examining emerging national and economic security threats; Examining federal preparedness to respond and address emerging threats including terrorism, disruptive technologies, misinformation and disinformation, climate change, and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive attacks;
Aside from lopping off entire agencies, here are some examples of controversial federal spending that, based on Musk and Ramaswamy’s recent comments, could be in the line of fire for coming cuts: