While parents were busy buying gifts for their children earlier this month, the office of Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was hard at work figuring out what gifts the federal treasury is handing out in the form of egregiously wasteful spending.

Paul’s office chronicled more than $560 million of wasteful spending in the federal budget, from taxpayer support for clown schools in Argentina ($324,015), to American vacations for British bloggers ($75,000), and a park bathroom in Queens, N.Y. ($1.5 million).