The Waste Report's Airing of Grievances: Festivus 2015
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Levin Center Identifier
Document Date
2015-12-23
Report Length
38 pages
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Policy Agendas Project Minor Code
Additional, Minority, Dissenting Views
Report Type
Found Using Methodology
Yes
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Brief Executive Summary
From the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management led by Senator Rand Paul issued an annual compilation edition of the weekly waste reports which looked at waste found in the year 2015. The report looks into various programs that it deemed wasteful that year, and attempts to display the monetary and social costs of all the programs. The report finds that approximately $1 billion in taxpayer money was used in these programs which is equivalent to the taxes of over 140,000 individuals.