Sen. Rand Paul highlights govt. waste in annual Festivus Report

As the year comes to an end, one senator is sounding the alarm over wasteful government spending throughout 2021. Republican Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is known for calling out wasteful government spending when he sees it as displayed in a floor speech back in May.

“The FAA was named for spending $57,000 on a study of the physical measurements of 432 airline stewardesses,” Paul explained. “These included the distance from knee-to-knee while sitting and the length of the buttocks…$58,000, this was your government money put to good use.”

In that same floor speech, the Kentucky lawmaker also highlighted how the National Institutes of Health spent taxpayer dollars to study cocaine and the risky sex habits of quail.

“…$800,000 of taxpayer money to study whether Japanese quail are more sexually promiscuous on cocaine,’ Paul noted. “You think, we could have just polled the audience? You think we could have just said, ‘What do you think?’ Because that’s sort of the answer. The answer is yes.”