$4.5 Billion to Ineligible Citizens? - Rand Paul's 2022 Festivus Report: Bureaucratic Edition

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$4.5 billion in COVID grants went to ineligible citizens. That’s just one of many pork spending items highlighted in Senator Rand Paul’s annual Festivus Report. Others include…
Giving ineligible citizens COVID Economic Injury Disaster Grants (SBA)…..$4,500,000,000 Using COVID relief funds to construct an 11,000 square foot spa……….….... $140,000,000 Using COVID relief funds to purchase luxury cars ……………………….…….$31,500,000 Starbucks espresso machines (DOD)………………………………………………$192,592 Interest Payments on the Debt (Treasury)….......………………………..…$475,000,000,000 Mismanaged and un-tracked fuel purchases (State)……………………….…….. $77,000,000 Overpaying government contractors for a terminated contract (GSA)…………..$69,000,000