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A $500,000 'golden potty,' $22 million on Serbian cheese, $467,000 to study frog mating calls and a $84,375 Bob Dylan statue: Republican senator Rand Paul unveils annual Festivus list of wasteful government spending
-Sen. Rand Paul dropped his Festivus Report 2019, which detailed $50,463,462,292.35 in government spending he was aggrieved about
-Paul celebrates Festivus, the December 23 holiday made popular in the 1990s by the popular sitcom 'Seinfeld'
-In this year's report he knocked the government for spending $500,000 on a self-cleaning toilet at a D.C.-area Metro station
-He pointed to a $22 million effort to get Serbian cheese up to international standards, while the U.S. is experiencing a historic cheese surplus
-And he knocked NIH studies, including one that looked into whether there was a link between drinking alcohol and going to the emergency room
More:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...s-aggrieving-50-BILLION-government-waste.html
Over $50bn in waste this year.