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FESTIVUS 2025: Stupid Government Programs That Cost You Big $$$

Is this Taxation Without Representation?

Jan 15, 2026
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The eleventh edition of Sen. Rand Paul’s Festivus Report proves he is working hard to alert the American people to how their federal government uses their hard-earned money.

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It’s not a pretty picture.

Your tax dollars not only fund some obviously stupid government programs, they also contribute to government-sanctioned animal cruelty.

Millions of your hard-earned tax dollars went to funding “brutal experiments on dogs, monkeys, and rats.”

This includes “over $13.8 million on beagle experiments, and $14,643,280 to make monkeys play a ‘Price Is Right’-inspired video game.

It’s a man-made animal hell on earth. And it doesn’t get much better.

“No matter how much taxpayer money Washington…

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