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by KRISTINE FRAZAO | The National News Desk
Thu, January 9th 2025 at 5:51 PMSenate Homeland Security Ranking Member Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., right, asks questions of U.S. Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate during a Joint Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing examining the security failures leading to the assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, July 30, 2024 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
WASHINGTON (TNND) — On Capitol Hill, the debate over spending cuts rages on.
In the midst of it is one senator who has been documenting what he views as "government waste" for years.
Now, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is out with a new report he hopes can be a guide for the government.
In it, he points to a $12 million federal grant given to help build a pickleball complex in Las Vegas.
While pickleball is the fastest-growing sport in the nation, Sen. Paul doesn't think that warrants tax dollars to help it.
I've played pickleball. Everybody loves pickleball, but really the federal government‘s got no business being in pickleball business," he said, in an interview with The National News Desk Thursday.
It’s one of dozens of grievances he airs in this year’s Festivus report, named for the fictional holiday from the TV Show Seinfeld, in which those who participate air their grievances.
The report highlights more thana trillion dollars of what he calls "wasteful spending by both parties."
He once again focuses on the $90 billion that's been spent for the construction and maintenance of the Littoral Combat Ship program, despite the vessel's flaws and failures over the years.
Millions more were spent to conduct scientific experiments on cats.
Additionally, $2.1 million was sent to help Paraguay secure its border.
It’s the wrong border," Paul said. "Nobody in the United States thinks they're voting to send money to Paraguay so they can control their border. Meanwhile, our border is wide open.”
Sen. Paul said he hopes President-elect Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will lead to far more government spending cuts but acknowledges at the end of the day Congress holds the power of the purse.
"You can’t expect the government we get better people because the history of government is not having people who are concerned with the taxpayer dollars. You have to give the bureaucrats less money to make them wiser in their decisions," he said.
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