“This is the eighth Festivus Report Senator Paul has released since entering the Senate in January 2011. In addition to the examples of wasteful spending, Paul’s report notes that the U.S. national debt is above $31 trillion and that the ‘debt has risen so rapidly that the Congressional Budget Office projects that, within the next 30 years, there is not a single year in which the federal budget will balance.'” – CNS News, December 27, 2022