The U.S. Government Spent over $14 Million to Teach Monkeys How to Play The Price is Right

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I wish I was kidding, but I'm not. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (Republican) publishes a "Festivus Report" in December every year outlining all of the government waste. For 2025 that figure totaled $1,639,135,969,608.00. That's $1.6 TRILLION dollars in waste. There were several that caught my eyelike dosing dogs with cocaine and teaching ferrets to binge-drink alcohol, but the one that took the cake for me was this one: NSF and other federal agencies paid $14,643,280 to make monkeys play a "Price Is Right"-inspired video game. Why? To what end? What scientific use is that and at what cost? The waste in taxpayer money makes my blood boil.