The Paul Festivus Report: A Great Start for DOGE Dec 23, 2024 THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE By Jack Hunt
Paul says in the report, “As always, taking the path to fiscal responsibility is often a lonely journey, but I’ve been fighting government waste like DOGE before DOGE was cool.”
With the knowledge of what’s in this report, and how offensive it is to our sensibilities and our wallets, Rand Paul and the Department of Government Efficiency should take chainsaw to this God-forsaken and untenable federal government, Javier Milei–style: Take no prisoners. Do America a favor  and

For many years, Senator Rand Paul has published his annual “Festivus Report” on December 23, a fictional, humorous holiday imagined by the popular 1990’s television series Seinfeld on which celebrators share an “airing of grievances.”

For Paul, those grievances are the absolutely asinine things the federal government spends our tax dollars on.

And there are many.

As we inch closer to Donald Trump’s second term, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are set to lead a new commission, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which vows to radically cut government spending and waste, with Musk even eyeing $2 trillion in cuts.

Paul has said he’s been consulting “weekly” with DOGE using his “Festivus Report” as a place for the agency to start. When Paul, Musk, Ramaswamy and others banded together last week to kill the original, 1,500 page plus, pork-laden spending bill, backed by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, Paul called Johnson weak and even suggested that Musk could be a good replacement for him.

How much this fiscally conservative cast of characters might accomplish remains to be seen, but as Paul releases his 2024 edition of his “Festivus Report” today, there is plenty of low-hanging fruit.

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