There’s a lot of “pork” in the US Government — better known as wasteful spending — but you’d never picture lumping in Slipknot, Korn, Nickelback, etc with that deficit. However, according to Rand Paul, that’s certainly the case!
The 2023 listing found $900 billion in federal waste this year, including some of the more than $200 million that was doled out to “dozens of famous music artists and their touring companies” under the Small Business Administration’s Shuttered Venue Operators Grant. The program, Paul said, “was supposed to provide a lifeline to small entertainment businesses nationwide.” Instead, the report found, “so-called ‘small business owners,’ such as Post Malone, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown and SMASHING PUMPKINS, received up to $10 million each,” Paul said. “Even NICKELBACK received $2 million.”
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