"They spent $324,015 to pay for a clown school in Argentina," Paul, from Kentucky, tweeted as part of his annual "Airing of Grievances" to highlight what he considers wasteful government spending.

Verdict: True

A U.S. agency provided foreign aid to a circus school for Argentinian youth.

Fact Check:

Paul releases a "waste report" each year that draws attention to federal dollars spent around the globe. The 2017 report includes tongue-in-cheek examples ranging from $100,000 to "teach farmers how to use Facebook" to $1.8 million to "remind Cambodian motorcyclists to wear a helmet."

Paul highlighted one such example in a string of tweets Saturday: about $300,000 spent to fund a clown school in Argentina.

The school funding comes from the Inter-American Foundation (IAF), a U.S. agency that provides an unorthodox alternative to traditional foreign aid. IAF has awarded 5,100 grants worth more than $720 million since 1972 to "the most creative ideas for self-help" in Latin America and the Caribbean.