Burn it all down!!

rfenst wrote:

Ya, tons of pork, and not just domestic unconstitutional spending.
SAME OLD SAME OLD bipartisan STUPID and EVIL.

Democrats are celebrating the heist, Well, at least the feckless Republicans included a new rule preventing the Consumer Product Safety Commission from banning gas stoves and allowing U.S. embassies to fly only the American flag or other official flags, excluding pride flags.

RayR wrote:

The more that tumbles out of this bill...I can see why she's pissed. I am too. The spending is out of control!

https://reason.com/2024/03/06/the-budget-deal-is-overflowing-with-12-billion-of-earmarks/ [/i][/color]

DrMaddVibe wrote:

Lot's of interesting details if one looks a bit more deeply.

Ms. Mayhem herself inserted 9 line items to the tune of $10,351,520.

Oh and remember Rep Matt Gaetz (R) of Florida? You know the guy who led the ouster of McCarthy for putting forth a pork laden spending bill? Well, he earmarked $50,000,000.

Pots meet kettles.

Abrignac wrote:

Ant,
Where did you find that info?

8trackdisco wrote:

Go to the article John linked. In it there is a link to “6000”. Follow that link. It’s an item by item breakdown of the individual earmarks, state where it’s going and who inserted it into the bill.

Here is the direct link:
https://appropriations.house.gov/fiscal-year-2024-community-project-funding 

On that page you’ll find links to multiple PDF’s. To see who inserted what open them and use the search function.

Abrignac wrote:

If you are using John's link, it may not be the same bill presented at the end of last week. Regardless, I appreciate you providing content with context.

8trackdisco wrote:

It’s impossible to look at Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky without thinking about the national debt. And that’s by design.

The MIT engineer put in three 15-hour days writing 1,000 lines of code to create the little gadget clipped to his lapel. In numbers reminiscent of a gas station pump – in a font he designed pixel by pixel – it displays just how much the United States owes now…. And now…. And now.

The orange digits at the end whir so fast they’re blurry. In the hour-plus we spent talking in the ornate Speaker’s Lobby this week, the United States descended $350 million deeper into the red.

The national debt is now at a record high of nearly $34.6 trillion. And today, the GOP-run House authorized the government to spend another $1.2 trillion that it doesn’t have. Meanwhile, Mr. Massie, a Kentucky libertarian who voted “no” on today's funding bill, has learned a thing or two about what works – and doesn’t work – to rein in spending since he rode the Tea Party wave to Congress a dozen years ago.

As Washington concludes yet another budget cycle with a pricey, rushed bill that was negotiated largely behind closed doors, he reflects on how the GOP set out to do things differently 15 months ago, and where it all broke down.

An inventor turned cattle farmer who built his off-the-grid homestead with logs from his property, Mr. Massie stood out from the start for his willingness to go against the grain. He challenged his own party. He wrote the motion that in 2015 pushed out GOP Speaker John Boehner, who ran afoul of hardline conservatives. He flouted longstanding norms, earning monikers from “anarchist” to “the most hated man in Washington,” when he forced all of Congress to return to Washington in the early days of the pandemic to vote in person on a $2.2 trillion stimulus package.

Then-President Donald Trump called and chewed him out as the House was voting.

Along the way, Mr. Massie mastered a Trump impression worthy of Saturday Night Live. (“I just have to say, you’ve come such a very long way since the screaming at you,” he intones, mimicking the former president’s backhanded endorsement of him after their blowout.)

More...

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2024/0322/GOP-said-Congress-would-cut-spending.-Rep.-Massie-on-how-it-broke-down