Rand Paul's waste quiz is wild — but the $1.22 trillion Americans lose to interest payments is no joke

If you’re curious about which government grants are supported by taxpayer dollars, try Sen. Rand Paul’s (R–Ky.) new Real or Fake quiz (1) and test your skills.

The quiz mixes examples of real federal grants that were signed off on this year with fake grants made up by the quiz team. It’s your job to decide which is real and which is fake.

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For example, did the USDA grant $445,000 to a Brooklyn collective for a “Pickle Equity Initiative” studying fermentation as “a form of food justice?” Did the Department of Veterans Affairs fund experiments teaching teenage ferrets to binge-drink alcohol?

But, as an example, the Department of Defense did spend an estimated $77 million a year on a military dolphin training program. However, the State Department did not send a delegation of Mongolian throat singers on a $1.1 million “arms-control cultural exchange” tour through Central Asia.

But the biggest culprit of government waste may surprise you — and it’s a lesson that American households can learn from.