Congress (controlled by Democrats) just released a 4,155-page, $1.7 trillion spending package that has to be passed by midnight this Friday in order to prevent a partial government shutdown going into the Christmas holiday. Of course, no one in Congress is going to read the complete bill before the deadline, so they will vote on a bill without really knowing what's in it. I believe politicians do this on purpose so they can include as many pork barrel, special interest projects as possible. One of the problems with this process is the amount of government waste it generates. For an example, here is a recent
article from the New York Post listing some of the most outrageous expenditures.
If you would like to see a much more comprehensive list of government waste, I would recommend
Senator Rand Paul’s 2021 Waste Report where he highlights a whopping $52,598,515,585 of waste, including a study
of pigeons gambling on slot machines, giving kids junk food, and telling citizens of Vietnam
not to burn their trash. No matter how much money has already been wasted, politicians keep
demanding even more.
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