(12-22-2024, 11:19 PM)TDOSS Wrote:

(12-21-2024, 04:40 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus

In the space of just a sure on the Congress, including siccing his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) attack dogs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy on reckless spending, turned a 1,500 page monstrosity of a bill into a slim 120-page banger of basic necessities, including disaster relief and help for farmers…

The fact that they are celebrating the number of *pages* in the bill should be a clue as to whether this was actually the big win Republicans wanted.

Normally in an actual win, one celebrates something that actually matters.

LOL they are celebrating

A LOT of the spending is no longer there and has been cut. (despite reports to the otherwise.) 
What is not there anymore? Well a few examples....

The 70 page section that would have given the government the legal right to force vaccines on the public, masks,  etc
The funding of an additional 12 gain of function labs (aka covid came from one of those)
3 million to study how the testers test and approve molasses. NOT the testing, grading the testers (a bunch of this kind of poop)
Giving DC free federal land for a stadium.  (This was passed later and while I disagree oh well, win some, lose some)
The J6 Committee protection provision
A department agency associated with censorship has been cut
Member of congress pay raises (including the annual 3.8% auto increase yearly)
The Pre funding until 2026  of a few agencies that will face DOGE interest.
There are many more this was just a sample.

What is there is the disaster relief not only for the citizens but military as well.
The extension of Farm bill
Other maintenance stuff that would have had to be done.  Some does appear to be refilling reserves where the money was reallocated to "something" ?
This is all "stuff" left over from the Biden term. Trump should have a clean start so he cannot whine about that unless they missed something.

The first 100 pages of the original bill had 100 billion of spending in it. Time 15 would be about 1.5 trillion dollars.
This one came in about half of that. So yea the taxpayers are celebrating the reduction of some waste. You have an issue with that?.

ps put the stadium in just for you as I know it was one of your hot buttons.

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