Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., in the issuance of his annual "Festivus Report," revealed the government wasted $52,598,515,585.
Paul, who sits as Ranking Member of the Senate Subcommittee for Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight, divided in his report the government's wasteful spending into subcategories which included areas such as COVID-19, Afghanistan, and miscellaneous.
For COVID, Paul detailed that $4.29 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program went to people who did not qualify, $36 billion in unemployment was "paid improperly, with a significant portion attributable to fraud," and $4.5 million was spent on "grinding up ferrets to develop COVID and flu vaccines."
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