Monkeys Playing 'Price Is Right', Ferrets on a Bender & Beagles on Meth

• Massive Interest Payments on National Debt

  • $1.2 trillion spent on interest payments in 2025 alone, making it the third-largest government expense after Social Security and Medicare.
  • Highlights the unsustainable nature of U.S. borrowing and debt ($38.4 trillion total).

• Animal Experimentation

  • $13.8 million for beagle experiments involving tick-borne illnesses.
  • $5.2 million for dosing beagles with cocaine and methamphetamines.
  • $14.6 million for monkey experiments where monkeys play a Price Is Right-style video game with head posts screwed into their skulls.
  • $1 million for forcing teenage ferrets to binge drink for 90 days before being killed.

• Questionable Research and Projects

  • $2.1 million for a four-year project collecting saliva samples at EDM festivals to test for drugs.
  • $2.9 million to study whether toddlers using iPads affects development.
  • $1.9 million for mobile phone interventions targeting childhood obesity in Latino families.

• Media and Cultural Spending

  • $40 million for COVID-19 vaccine promotion after the pandemic ended.
  • $1.5 million to promote U.S. films and video games abroad.
  • $244,000 for a Pakistani children’s climate cartoon.
  • $3.3 million for an anti-racism campus program at Northwestern University.

• Infrastructure and Immigration Costs

  • $7.5 billion allocated for EV infrastructure, resulting in only 68 charging stations built.
  • $22.6 billion spent on migrant benefits.

• Miscellaneous

  • $2.5 million to promote insect consumption.
  • $1.5 million for influencer-led anti-drug TikTok campaigns.

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Story number one.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
President Trump ran on getting rid of waste, fraud and
abuse within our government. It's something that we know has
been rampant for quite some time, but we're finally starting
to witness some of that waste front abuse disappear. We
know a lot of it was done when DOGE was
started with Elon Musk being in charge, but the journey

(03:01):
is still a big one. The battle is still an
uphill battle, and the government, we now are learning, has
funded a lot of things that are going to make
you want to beat your head against the wall. The
government has funded experiments that dose dogs with cocaine. You're
paying for that. Also, your tax dollars are paying to

(03:23):
force ferrets to binge drink. Those are just some of
the highlights coming out from Santa Rampaul's Festivus Report released
by the end of the year. He wants you to
know every year what your dollars have been going for
the Kentucky Republican uses his annual holiday report to air

(03:45):
the grievances and highlight examples of massive government waste, which
is reports say total more than one point six trillion
when counting the interest payments on debt. The twenty twenty
five report sites examples ranging from the Department of Health
and Human Services paying social media influencers a collective forty

(04:06):
million dollars to promote COVID nineteen vaccination for racial and
ethnic minority groups, to the State Department spending one point
five million to boost American films, television shows, and I'm
not joking video games abroad. No matter how much taxpayer

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money washing burns through, politicians can't help but demand more.
Fiscal responsibility may not be the most crowded road, but
it's one I've walked for years and years, and this
holiday season will be no different. That's what Senator Paul
chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee,
said in the statement. He said, so before we go

(04:48):
to the feats of strength, it's time for my airing
of spending grievances, referring to the Festivust tradition popularized in
the nineteen ninety sitcom Seinfeld. The b look the federal spending,
mister Paul refers to his waist is the record, and
this should make every American beyond angry. One point two

(05:09):
trillion dollars that we spent in interest payments this year
on the government's thirty eight point four trillion dollar debt,
So one point four trillion of the money that was
spent this year just went to interest that makes interest.
And this is how out of control our government spending

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and borrowing has become the third largest government expense, only
after Social Security and medicare. Again, something that should make
you very, very, very angry now, he said. The government
refuses to balance its budget and taxpayers are stuck picking
up the trillion dollar tab annually. The more than four

(05:54):
undred billion in the twenty twenty five at wasteful spending
outline of interest payments on the debt included hundreds of
millions spent on gain of function research laboratory experiments on dogs, monkeys,
and rats, something we know was a disaster with a
COVID nineteen vaccine, something that doctor Anthony Fauci's accused of
lying to Congress on the issue of gain and function research.

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He went on to say that includes more than thirteen
point eight million that we spent alone on beagle experiments.
Fourteen million, six hundred and eighty three thousand, two hundred
eighty dollars to make monkeys play a Price is Right
inspired video game again, almost fifteen million just for that

(06:41):
and so much more. He credited White Coat Ways to
nonprofit watchdog organization that once the end government funded animal
testing with helping identify those and other expenses. Again, bipartisanship
is a good thing. The thirteen point eight million for
beagle experiments refers to the ongoing showing National Institute of

(07:01):
Allergy and Infectious Diseases grant funding for the University of Missouri,
Columbia that was first approved during Anthony Fauci's tenure. The
experiments exposed hundreds of beagles as young as four months
old to ticks to infect the dogs with illnesses like
Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The dogs are intentionally denied pain

(07:24):
relief so that it does not interact with the infection
or experimental vaccines. That is what White Coast Waste Research
has found. The group also identified an ongoing five point
two million dollar project funded by the National Institute of
Drug Abuse in which beagles are dosed with cocaine and methamphetamines.

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The National Science Foundation and other agencies also monkeyed around
with your tax Dours Paul wrote in the report, using
a pun to highlight the fourteen million in federal grants
for inhumane research involving the monkeys. He says, researchers at
Brown University track the monkey's brain activity and eye movements

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as they play a video game called Plinko, a variation
of the famous Price Is Right game. The monkeys have
head posts screwed into their skulls to keep their heads
still while they play the game. The report also sets
the Department of Veterans, by the way, have proved a
one million dollar project in which teenage ferrets are forced

(08:26):
to binge drink alcohol for up to ninety days before
they're killed. That sounds exciting, The researchers claim. The goal
of the drunken Ferrets experiment, which you're paying for, is
to pave the way quote unquote for teenage ferrets to
be used to test chemical weapons, opioids, extreme stress and
TBI traumatic brain injuries, or to conduct studies related to depression, stress,

(08:51):
responses addiction, schizophrenia, suicide, and sensory processing. The report states.
Justin Goodman, by the way, the senior vice president at
Whitecoat Waste, said the group is proud that mister Paul
continues to include research on wasteful government spending and wasteful

(09:11):
government animal tests as well. Now this is just some
of what we found out, but there's even more. I'll
give you another example of some of the shock and
where your money is also going. Not only do we
spend one point five million for the AHHS spending on
celebrity influencers to discourage the drug use, right that's one

(09:32):
of your tax hours, but one point nine million we
also spent for mobile phone intervention for childhood obesity Latino
family specifically. That was where your tax dollars went one
point nine million for that. We also know that there
was two hundred and forty four thousand funding for a
Pakistani children's climate cartoon, so we're still paying for cartoons

(09:55):
to be created in places like Pakistan one point five million,
promotion of US and media films overseas. Two point five
million for the National Science Foundation fund to promote insect consumption.
So we're now paying two and a half million for
you to eat bugs, a million and a half for
an influencer let anti drug TikTok campaign. Forty million for

(10:20):
COVID vaccine promotion after the pandemic had already ended. Let
me see that again, your tax hours. This year we
spent forty million to promote the covid vaccine even after
the pandemic had ended. Twenty million controversial experiment involving all
the ferrets of dogs the monkeys I mentioned a moment ago.
Three point three million for anti racism campus program at

(10:44):
Northwestern University. Three point three million of your tax hours
for that seven point five billion with a B allocated
to ev infrastructure like vehicle infrastructure, but only sixty eight
charging stations have been built, so we spent eight point
five or excuse me, seven point five billion on sixty

(11:07):
five charging stations. Again another example of the corruption in
our government. Another twenty two point six not million, but
billion spending on migrant benefits. So if you want to
know what illegal immigrants are costing it the bare minimum
twenty two point six billion, which we had to borrow

(11:29):
the money. And now once we borrow the money, now
we're spending that over trillion dollars a year on interest
payments ALTE. Now, the report also combines government spending deem
wasteful with category some may view as improper insufficient. Is
what the left says about this, They say, well, you
know there's a lot here that you don't understand, right,

(11:51):
all right, Well let's go to this Another example, the
Department of Health and Human Services approving a two point
one million dollar four year project where New York University
researchers planned a camp outside EDM festivals to collect saliva
samples to test for over one thousand drugs. Quote, perhaps

(12:15):
we don't need a multimillion dollar rave reconnaissance mission to
confirm that nightclub drugs are in fact drugs, is what
was said by Senator Paul hhs Is also giving two
point nine million to the University of Michigan to investigate
a mystery that had baffled absolutely no one whether toddlers

(12:38):
spending all day on iPads might affect their development. Now,
these are just some of the highlights of your tax dollars, waste,
fraud and abuse being brought to light. The question now
is how do we get rid of it? And what
is the present plan to do on that issue.

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