$70 million for salmon, $3 million for
bee-friendly highways and $3.6 million
for the Michelle Obama trail: Some of
the odd riders attached to the $1.7T omnibus bill
Posted By: Imright, 12/21/2022 7:49:58 PM
Congress is trying to cram through a mammoth $1.7 trillion government funding bill ahead of a nor'easter that could otherwise leave lawmakers snowed-in in Washington, D.C. over Christmas. The 4,500 page bill is full of classic priorities: $858 billion for defense, $45 billion for Ukraine, $38 billion for emergency disasters and billions more for other social programs - but also includes some odd riders. It's loaded with thousands of earmarks - funding for the pet projects of individual lawmakers sometimes in exchange for their vote. Earmarks were banned until Democrats brought them back last year. Republicans followed suit in their own conference.
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On Tuesday, the Democrat-led House Means and Ways Committee voted along party lines to release Trump’s tax returns. Within hours, it published data from Trump’s 2015-2020 returns. The Committee obtained the documents through an appeals court ruling that ordered Trump to turn them over following a years-long legal battle.
Former President Donald Trump has released a five minute video in which he rambles on how the January 6 Committee findings were a 'monstrous lie'.
The video, which was posted to his Truth Social platform on Friday night sees Trump refusing the reports findings that he was ultimately responsible for the 2021 Capitol insurrection.
'The unselect committee did not produce a single shred of evidence that I in anyway intended or wanted violence at our capitol,' Trump said. 'The evidence does not exist because the claim is baseless and a monstrous lie.
Vice President Kamala Harris lashed out at the media in an end-of-year interview claiming they have failed to cover her strengths during her tenure.
Harris, speaking with Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart who lavished praise on the VP, said that 'what you've been able to see is based on what gets covered.'
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Trump turns tables on Dems’ ‘deranged
political witch-hunt,’ gives GOP-led
House a call to action 2 replies
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Breitbart News got an exclusive look at the new video, which came after members of the Democrat-led House Means and Ways Committee voted along party lines on Tuesday to release Trump’s long-sought-after 2015-2020 tax returns.
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Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans really, really hate their voters.
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They shaped the future of America’s long-term spending from the comfort of their La-Z-Boy recliners.
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Sam Bankman-Fried's ex-girlfriend has confessed that she knowingly engaged in 'illegal' business tactics with the disgraced FTX founder in bombshell court testimony given as part of a plea deal with authorities.
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A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit from Massachusetts parents who accused public school officials of hiding their children’s gender transitions from them.
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The WHO doesn’t mess around. At least when it comes to spreading propaganda.
I will assume for the sake of civility that the WHO genuinely believes that the COVID vaccine is safe and effective. I will even assume that for most people the vaccine is safe, and at least somewhat effective in reducing the likelihood of severe disease in people likely to become deadly ill from COVID, such as the very old and very sick.
But I will not concede that critics of the vaccine are spreading misinformation nor stoking unreasonable fears. Quite a few sober scientists and even the health officials of many OECD countries have expressed real and reasonable skepticism
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The estimates cover the period from July 2021 to July 2022.
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