Rand Paul参议员2025年的Festivus报告批评1.6万亿美元的联邦支出, Senator Rand Paul’s 2025 Festivus report criticizes $1.6 trillion in federal spending, highlighting controversial projects like influencer campaigns and animal studies.

Rand Paul参议员于2025年12月23日发表第11次年度Festivus报告, 指称联邦支出为1.6万亿美元, Senator Rand Paul released his 11th annual Festivus report on December 23, 2025, alleging $1.6 trillion in federal spending he labeled wasteful, including funding for influencer campaigns on public health, animal experiments, and international outreach. 报告着重指出了开支,例如150万美元用于针对拉丁裔社区的禁毒影响者工作,4 000万美元用于通过影响者推广COVID-19疫苗,1 460万美元用于猴子视频游戏研究。 The report highlighted expenditures such as $1.5 million on anti-drug influencer efforts targeting Latinx communities, $40 million promoting COVID-19 vaccines via influencers, and $14.6 million for monkey video game studies. 它还提到巴基斯坦的气候漫画投入了244,252美元，以及一个教雪貂酗酒的项目投入超过100万美元——该项目被广泛认为具有讽刺意味。 It also cited $244,252 for a climate cartoon in Pakistan and over $1 million on a program teaching ferrets to binge drink—widely seen as satirical. 参议院国土安全委员会主席保罗利用该报告批评财政不负责任,并呼吁在政府开支方面加强问责制。 Paul, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, used the report to criticize fiscal irresponsibility and call for greater accountability in government spending.