Sen. Paul Takes to Twitter to Air Festivus Grievances

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., took to Twitter Saturday to kick off "Festivus," a faux holiday which takes its name from a "Seinfeld" episode in which George Costanza's father introduces friends and family to a Christmas-adjacent alternative.

Paul has made Festivus somewhat of an annual tradition, and in years past has ripped the government, colleagues and the media. On Saturday, he took aim at EPA director Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump and how much money the federal government wasted in 2017. 

I have a #HappyFestivus grievance with @ScottPruittOK. A year as @EPA director and still the toilets are NOT FIXED https://t.co/Q5Kr4um5aW

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2017

I want to pause to wish @realDonaldTrump a Happy Festivus. We told him to take today off, since he airs his grievances on here every day pic.twitter.com/OicIz1x5Uj

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2017

My #Festivus edition of the Waste Report totals $563,421,523 the federal government wasted.

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2017

The average taxpayer pays around $8,136. That means the programs in this report wasted the taxes of 69,250 people

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2017

That’s roughly the size of my hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2017

Here are just a handful of the examples...#AiringofGrievances

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2017

Your government spent $3,217,960 on putting on music festival and concerts abroad.

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2017

They spent $324,015 to pay for a clown school in Argentina. Rumors to the contrary, this was not a CODEL

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2017

It may not seem like a lot of money, but we spent just under $100k to make sure Kenyan farmers knew how to use Facebook.

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2017

We spent over $170k to build trails in national parks. Seems like not too bad until you read the next line that the parks were in Russia

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2017

Oh great, now the waste report is going to get a subpoena from the Special Prosecutor.

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2017

We spent $8.2 million to “instill confidence in the Libyan government”.

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2017

That begs several queastions really. Like why we blew up the last Libyan government...and, wait, there’s a Libyan government currently?

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2017

We spent $15 million to train cashiers in Walmart...in Mexico

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2017

And @realDonaldTrump thinks there is a chance in hell someone else is going to pay for that border wall. pic.twitter.com/aL88gcPEjF

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2017

Last but definitely worst: your government thought It wise to spend your tax dollars to build $255 million to repair roads...in Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/aKFzUSEbYG

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2017

Those are just a few items from our #HappyFestivus edition of the waste report, and they add to our #AiringofGrievances.

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2017

You can read more of the report here https://t.co/qAxQT2hrRu‘festivus’-edition-‘-waste-report’

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2017