With a nod to the comedic genius of "Seinfeld," Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) annually celebrates the fictitious holiday of Festivus, particularly its "airing of grievances" that, for him, center on the federal government's many examples of absurd and infuriating wastes of taxpayer money.

On Monday, Paul unveiled this year's edition of his Festivus report that highlighted more than $1 trillion in wasteful spending, according to the Daily Caller.

As the senator wrote in his report, mimicking the Frank Costanza "Seinfeld" character who created the fake holiday, "I have a lot of problems with federal spending, and now it’s time to hear all about them!"

An airing of fiscal grievances

The 41-page report begins with a sobering reminder of the nation's $36 trillion and growing debt and how, despite that crushing financial obligation, Congress continues to dole out taxpayer funds on a wide variety of dubious programs at home and abroad.

This year, for the first time in a decade he has compiled the annual report, Sen. Paul was able to give out shout-out to incoming new allies in his mission, the Department of Government Efficiency that will be led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

The Kentucky senator wrote, "As always, taking the path to fiscal responsibility is often a lonely journey, but I’ve been fighting government waste like DOGE before DOGE was cool. And I will continue my fight against government waste this holiday season."

So much documented waste

At the top of Sen. Paul's list of federal fiscal grievances was the estimated $10 billion wasted annually by the government to furnish, maintain, and lease dozens of largely empty and unused office buildings for various federal workers in Washington D.C. and around the country.

He also highlighted the continuing discovery of rampant waste, fraud, and abuse in the plethora of COVID-19 pandemic relief programs, with one particularly egregious example being a Florida man who bilked taxpayers out of $8 million to purchase himself a private island.

Perhaps just as infuriating is the $12 million spent on a massive pickleball court complex in Las Vegas, Nevada, or maybe the $330,000 in funding for the U.K.-based "Global Disinformation Index" that is used to censor and marginalize conservative and independent media outlets.

There is also $2 million to study teens viewing ads for snacks on social media, $4.8 million to bolster social media "influencers" in Ukraine, $123,000 to train youth in Kyrgyzstan how to go "viral" on social media platforms that the Central Asian nation censors, and $873 million spent to support and train members of the filmmaking industry in Jordan.

These will make you mad

Other wasteful expenditures highlighted by Sen. Paul included $15 million for the IRS to get into the tax preparation and filing game, the $15.5 billion spent by the Energy Department to coerce Americans to give up their gas-powered vehicles for electric vehicles, and the $3 million set alight by the State Department to "girl-centered climate action" in Brazil.

Also of note is the nearly $350,000 spent by the State Department to promote youth soccer globally as an alternative to terrorism, and the nearly $300,000 doled out by the National Science Foundation to encourage the formation of identity-focused "safe spaces" and "affinity groups" for bird-watching clubs.

Arguably worse than that was the half million spent by, you guessed it, the State Department for a social media public relations campaign in Ethiopia, the combined $7 million wasted by several different agencies to support magic shows and magician training, roughly $14 million combined for various cruel and unusual "scientific" studies on cats, or $10,000 in funding for a climate change-focused ice-skating show featuring drag queens.

There were also several decidedly unfunny wastes of taxpayer funds too, such as $90 billion sunk over two decades for ineffective U.S. Navy vessels, $20 million to fund a "Sesame Street" knockoff in Iraq, $20 million for teaching farmers in foreign nations how to use fertilizer, $2.1 million to secure Paraguay's borders while the U.S. borders remain unsecured, last but certainly not least, the nearly $900 billion spent annually on servicing the interest alone on the national debt.