Author name: Jason Smith

How the U.S. Government Spent your Tax Dollars in 2024: State Department spent $2.1 million on border security—for Paraguay. USAID is spending $20 million on “Ahlan Simsim” a new Sesame Street show in Iraq The National Endowment for the Arts awarded the Bearded Ladies Cabaret a $10,000 grant to support a cabaret show on ice […]

Unless addressed, the U.S. Govt will add over $6.4 billion of debt every day for the next ten years, borrowing over $268 million every hour, $4.5 million every minute and $74,401 every second. Total debt stands at $36.2 trillion and this year, interest payments exceeded $1 trillion. Source: https://hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/FESTIVUS-REPORT-2024.pdf

What does the U.S. Government use taxpayer dollars for? $6.9M studying ‘smart toilets’ that recognize the user’s ‘anal print’ $2.3M for the NIH to inject dogs with cocaine $118,000 to study if a metal replica robot of Marvel Comics’ Thanos could really snap his fingers $75,000 in grants on a Harvard study on lizards being

The new continuing resolution spending bill is 116 pages vs. the original 1,547 and here are some of the key changes: No pay raise for Congress No transfer of the football stadium land No Global Engagement Center extension No section on “Pandemic Preparedness and Response” No language change for “justice-involved individuals” Source: https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20241216/American%20Relief%20Act%202025.pdf

This is the split of administrators vs. teaching staff at the top 25 endowed universities. We are investing in bureaucracy over actual education. Source: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/mastervariablelist.aspx?stepId=2&sid=783e04e6-59bc-44fc-ab6e-e5d3b6dcd6d5&rtid=1

The 1,547-page, $110+ Billion House “Continuing Resolution” meant to avert a government shutdown includes: A pay increase for members of Congress from $174,000 to $243,000 per year. A new football stadium in D.C. 72 pages of “Pandemic Preparedness and Response” policy Renewal of the “Global Engagement Center”, which is currently being sued for censorship Sources:

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a $850,000 federal grant to “Centerstone’s LGBTQI+ Family Support Program” to provide training for military families to “affirm the gender identity” of their children. Source: https://taggs.hhs.gov/Detail/AwardDetail?arg_AwardNum=H79FG001252&arg_ProgOfficeCode=292

The Department of Education spent over $1 Billion promoting DEI in America’s schools $489,883,797 for race-based hiring $343,337,286 for DEI programming $169,301,221 for DEI mental health initiatives Source: https://defendinged.org/investigations/granted/

DOGE is undergoing a serious analysis of wasteful and burdensome regulations, and is looking for public feedback! Which are the really bad ones? Please DM us the CFR provision, the relevant text from the regulation, and the adverse consequences of said regulation.

The Federal government spends 80% of its annual $100 billion IT budget on maintaining outdated systems. Not only are older systems more expensive to maintain, but they are also more vulnerable to hackers. Source: https://gao.gov/blog/outdated-and-old-it-systems-slow-government-and-put-taxpayers-risk