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https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/dr-rand-paul-releases-special-%E2%80%98festivus%E2%80%99-edition-%E2%80%98-waste-report%E2%80%99	Dr. Rand Paul Releases Special ‘Festivus’ Edition of ‘The Waste Report’	2017-12-22	2017	2017-12	Republican	House	KY	Rand Paul	P000603	www.paul.senate.gov			legacy	FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 22, 2017 Contact: Press@paul.senate.gov, 202-224-4343 WASHINGTON, D.C. Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul released a special Festivus: Airing of Grievances for 2017 edition of The Waste Report, an ongoing project cataloguing egregious examples of waste within the U.S. government. In its third year, Dr. Pauls Festivus Waste Report again shines a spotlight on wasteful spending and misplaced priorities that put taxpayers on the hook for the federal governments bad management. Dr. Pauls series has, over three years, documented approximately $6 billion in wasteful spending. This years edition also includes excerpts from Worldwide Waste: How the Government is Using and Losing Your Money Abroad, a 2017 Waste Report series that documented more than $3 billion of wasteful, taxpayer-funded endeavors overseas. Highlights from the Festivus Waste Report include the IRS failing to recover over $76 million in unallowable expenses to government contractors, and the Department of Transportation spending $1.5 million on a park bathroom in Queens, NY. You can find Dr. Pauls Festivus: Airing of Grievances for 2017 edition of The Waste Report, which totals up over $560 million in waste, HERE. ###	1	2026-03-30T12:14:52Z	2026-03-30T12:14:52Z