
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Trump administration has recently unveiled the rampant fraud in federal funds spent in Minnesota, mostly by the Somali immigrants in the Minneapolis area. Those funds were issued to states during the Biden administration with no real oversight. But the federal spending under the Trump administration itself is far from responsible or free of waste. A year-end report by Republican Senator Rand Paul shows that 2025 was also a year of waste in federal spending under the Trump administration.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A couple days before Christmas, Senator Paul shared a link to his report on his X page with the short message that the wasteful federal spending for 2025 stands at an unbelievable $1.6 trillion. He wrote: “Read the report, air your grievances, and let us know which items are your favorite.”</p>



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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&#39;Tis the season for FESTIVUSð²<br><br>This year&#39;s waste report tallies an<br>UNBELIEVABLE $1,639,135,969,608ð¸<br><br>Read the report, air your grievances, and let us know which items are your favorite.<a href="https://t.co/NY9skPZTKR">https://t.co/NY9skPZTKR</a> <a href="https://t.co/lIg65SazAJ">pic.twitter.com/lIg65SazAJ</a></p>&mdash; Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenRandPaul/status/2003482558651146291?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 23, 2025</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The details of the report strike as a hard blow to the fiscally conservative Americans who were hoping to cut most if not all waste in federal spending. Of the $1.6 trillion of government’s waste, $1.2 trillion is the interest the United States is to pay on its national debt, which by now has reached $40 trillion from the $36 trillion when Biden left the White House.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Many other unnecessary and even objectionable programs and projects were funded with the taxpayer money, particularly leftist-globalist programs that are supposed to belong in the liberal worldview. For example, USAID gave the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance $54 million to collect bat coronaviruses and transport them to Wuhan for gain-of-function experiments, that is, Dr. Fauci’s gain-of-function scheme.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For another bite of surprise mixed with disappointment, the Human Health Services (HHS) spent over $40 million on influencers to promote getting vaccinated against COVID-19 for racial and ethnic minority groups.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Then come the torturous experiments on lab pups, for which Fauci was slammed, and rightfully so. The Festivus Report revealed that the NIH has continued funding for Fauci’s beagle experiments with another $13.8 million despite promises by RFK Jr. to end these inhumane experiments. Another $5 million plus were spent – again – on dosing dogs with cocaine. Fox News commentators condemned the continued use of animals in such awful lab work.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In foreign spending, the Trump administration spent a $20 of bailout package on Argentina whose libertarian leader Javier Milei has won the approval of conservative leaders in the west for his austerity measures but has failed to get his country out of its economic woes. The government also gave nearly $245,000 to Pakistan for producing a climate change cartoon for kids and $2 million for gender-based activism in Guatemala.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Much of this wasteful spending was initiated during the Biden administration but some has continued into the Trump presidency without any accountability. Senator Paul gave President Trump credit for cutting billions in wasteful foreign spending but commented that it barely scratches the surface of this problem:</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>For the first time in 50 years, President Trump deployed a pocket rescission, cancelling $5 billion in foreign aid and international organization funding. While it’s a good start, it’s just a drop in the bucket.</em></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">On December 30, Republican Congressman Eric Burlison of Missouri shared a clip of his video interview on Newsmax wherein he decried the federal government throwing $200 billion a year to waste, fraud, and abuse.</p>



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Inside Rand Paul’s 2025 Report on Federal Government’s Waste
