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From the Unidon America Studios. For Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, Dan

Mandis, this is Red Eye Radio. 86690 Red Eye is the phone number. Rand Paul's Waste Report is out,

and I'm going to be honest with you.

Some of this stuff is really weird.

And I'm not even sure that I should read some of this.

Because they're doing some really strange things to animals.

You know what Rand Paul does, right?

So every year he comes out with his, I think he calls it the Festivus report.

And basically what it is is he's reporting on the waste in our government.

And so, of course, the big ticket items include $892 billion paid in interest on our government's credit card.

$90 billion the government has spent on ineffective U.S. Navy combat ships.

That's also a problem.

There's the $15.5 billion, they say, promoting electric vehicles, Americans don't want. And yeah, that's a

free market thing. The $10 billion the federal government spent on maintaining, leasing, and

furnishing office buildings that have become virtual ghost towns in the post-COVID era when

most government employees work from home.

Yeah, when I say the electric vehicles, the American people don't want, and the $15.5 billion

promoting said vehicles, that's a free, to me it's a free market thing. Either the American people

want electric vehicles or they don't. But it shouldn't be up to our government to try to

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