(08-01-2022, 12:37 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(08-01-2022, 11:52 AM)WingerDinger Wrote: Bingo.. full of pork..

If they actually cared about veterans, the would have drafted a stand alone bill..

The only "pork" I saw in some reading was a sentence that said 'funding for veterans of toxic chemicals and other funding.'  But that was stricken from the original bill if I read things correctly. So what was the 'other funding' for? Was it the $400M? Who knows. If it's spelled out then it's somewhere else. 

The thing about these bills are they are both entirely too detailed and not detailed enough. For anyone not educated in how to read those things it's a nightmare to understand. Those of us most affected by them are at the mercy of those with an agenda.

According to Toomey, that dollar amount is $400B, not M. 

From what I gather it’s not pork in the bill, but the potential for pork because of the wording used in the funding language. Instead of having a set dollar amount devoted to the subject of the bill, democrats want an open ended amount that can be spent in other places. I could be wrong but that is the impression I’m getting.

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