https://twitter.com/inteldotwav/status/1341554264397795329

Tis' the season for the 2020 Festivus Report…..totaling over $54 billion in government waste.

Do you think you could you have spent$54,746,524,505.37betterthan the federal government?

https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1341530880557375490

Top 10

Despite spending 15 years and billions of dollars, American counternarcotics efforts in Afghanistan are ineffective (Foreign Aid)

The Fish and Wildlife Service is subsidizing yachting (Environment, Energy,Science)

NIH paid to find out if hot tubbing can lower stress (Health Care)

Using CARES Act funds, the FAA renovateda taxiway at the airport on Nantucket Islandmost often used by private jets (Miscellaneous)

NIH paid researchers to interview San Franciscans about how they use edible cannabis(Health Care)

FEMA paid for test tubesfor COVID testsbut received contaminated mini soda bottles (Miscellaneous)

NIH paid researchers to develop methods to stop grown adults from binge-watching television(Health Care)

DODlost more than 100drones over Afghanistan (Military)

USAID is open to creating a venture capital fund in Bosnia & Herzegovinafor bad investments(Foreign Aid)

NSF ran lizards on a treadmill (Environment, Energy, Science)

https://www.paul.senate.gov/sites/default/files/page-attachments/2020FestivusReport.pdf