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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), chairman of the Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management (FSO) Subcommittee for the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), continued his efforts to reform the big-spending status quo with the release of a Summer 2019 edition of The Waste Report.
Once again, Dr. Paul's Waste Report turns the spotlight on just some of the ways the federal government spends the American people's hard-earned money, with this edition including stories of building up Tunisia's political system and the Pakistani film industry, supporting "green growth" in Peru, teaching English and IT skills at madrassas, studying frog mating calls, making improper payments, and more.
The biggest seem to be:
Converted an abandoned mental hospital into DHS HQ (GSA and DHS) .......... $2,120,040,355.35
Paid out billions from Medicare in improper payments (CMS) ....................... $48,000,000,000
[Editor's Comment: The full 15-page report is found in a Scribd display on the given link.]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @04:11PM
I don't think the democrat party is in any way affected by Sanders' run in 2016. The party stands for retaining the status quo in the nation's ghettos and at the border to retain an uncritical voter pool. What's left about them? When have they last cared about US jobs and tried to get people out of poverty?
Their public appearance since Trump's win has been pure theatrics. Congress is powerless, so they let a menagerie of clowns talk wild shit as if there were a serious opposition to the inner party represented by Pelosi. Next year it will be apparent quickly who the party chooses to field for president: Establishment people like Biden, or Pocahontas if Biden is untenable by then.
Both parties were internally weakened in 2016. Trump ploughed through to the nomination with his money and shamelessness. Sanders had a chance, but failed to counter the establishment control of the lumpen proletariat.