Feds Spending $20 Million to Create Iraqi Version of Sesame Street

Senator Rand Paul unveiled his tenth annual Festivus Report this week – a deep-dive into how the federal government is using tax money generated by the hard-working American people.

It’s similar to what Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are doing with the new Department of Government Efficency. But Senator Paul, the Republican from Kentucky, was DOGE before DOGE became a household name.

This year’s Festivus Report is absolutely appalling – exposing more than ONE TRILLION DOLLARS in government waste. So, in the spirit of Festivus, let’s air our grievances.

Your government is spending $20 million on a new version of Sesame Street based in Baghdad. That’s right, folks. Muslim muppets are coming to television sets across Iraq – courtesy of the American taxpayers.

The Agency for International Development (USAID) says the Baghdad-based show will promote “inclusion” and “mutual respect.”....

Your government is also spending $4.8 million on Ukrainian influencers, more than $32,000 on breakdancing and $12 million for a pickleball complex in Las Vegas...

Your tax dollars are also funding a Bearded Ladies Cabaret – and a drag show on ice. The show features polar bears, drag queens and a character called “nonbinary parental guardian nature.” Ice skating drag queens are apparently the answer to resolving climate change.

Plus, more than 7 million dollars on magic tricks – literal hocus pocus. $10 million on cat experiments. And more than $400,000 to determine if lonely rats have a better chance at getting high on cocaine than happy rats.

But that’s not all folks.

$20 million on fertilizer – loads of it – bound for Pakistan, Vietnam, Columbia and Brazil.