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Worldwide Waste: How the Government is Using and Losing Your Money Abroad - Part I: Foreign Cultural Promotion
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management
Abstract
Chairman Rand Paul of the Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs issued a series of waste reports of American foreign expenditure. This is part 1 of 7 cataloging over $3 billion in wasteful spending. This specific volume reports on foreign cultural promotion including ~$3 million in foreign music festival funding, ~$800k for skateboard parks in Afghanistan, ~$15 million in funding foreign versions of Sesame Street, ~$6 million for Cambodian temple conservation, $250k in sending Pakistani students to Space Camp, $850k in developing an Afghan Cricket League, and $1 million in funding Afghan Variety TV Shows.
Date
2017-01-11
Document Type
Senate Majority Staff Report
Serial Number
Document Length
15 pages
Congress
115
Relation
DOI
Keywords
Staff Reports, Senate, Republican
PAP Major Code
20: Government Operations
PAP Minor Code
2002: Government Efficiency, General Regulatory Policy and Bureaucratic Oversight