In Yet Another Middle Finger To Taxpayers, McConnell Nets Kentucky $500 Million In Earmarks
Only someone like McConnell could use his impending departure from the leadership ranks to act even more swampy.Only someone like McConnell could use his impending departure from the leadership ranks to act even more swampy.Earmarks Are Never A Winning Political Strategy
At some point, the restrictions and limitations should cause Congress to ask an obvious question: Is all this worth the hassle?House passes $1.2 TRILLION spending deal, but what’s actually in it? Brace yourself.
Much to the dismay of conservatives who have been pleading for spending cuts, the House passed a $1.2 trillion government funding bill mere hours before the shutdown deadline. The package will fund the government through the end of the fiscal year (September 30).
But the astronomical expense isn’t the only thing conservatives are upset about. What’s actually in the bill is largely problematic as well.
Of the $1.2 trillion, “$500 million [is] appropriated for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency,” which will “support the Armed Forces of Jordan and to enhance security along its borders,” reads Glenn.
The bill also allocated funds to LGBTQ+ projects, including what Glenn Beck humorously calls “the grooming, binding, and tucking” initiative that will develop “new underpants for kids” in the community.
“There's a lot of LGBTQ kids out there without underpants because you know, that's just the way America is right now — underpant-less,” he mocks.
Further, “there are agencies that [Glenn] didn't even know existed that are getting billions of dollars” — agencies like the United States Agency for International Development, which he says “is just an arm of the CIA.”
The organization is “giving money all over the world and not for anything that you actually think is right but for what the CIA thinks is right,” he explains.
One senator reached out to Glenn following the passing of the bill with the following message: “Glenn, we’re going to hell in a handbag.”
Glenn wholeheartedly agrees.
“If we don't turn this thing around by fall, sorry gang. I hate to say it, but you're just not going to come back from all of this.”
To hear more about the spending bill, watch the clip below.
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Conservatives line up against swampy, earmark-laden government appropriations package
Conservative lawmakers are speaking out against a proposed government appropriations package that is packed with earmarks.
GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas tweeted that no Republicans should vote in favor of the proposal, describing it as "one of the worst bills with one of the worst processes I have ever seen."
"There should be a 2 week CR to allow not just members, but Americans to review this bill - because I gotta be honest, if we did that… NOT A SINGLE REPUBLICAN WOULD VOTE FOR IT," Roy wrote in another post. "There are lots of offensive earmarks," he also tweeted, adding the hashtag "#SwampOmnibus."
For example, a list disclosing the "congressional earmarks and congressionally directed spending items," related to one portion of the package indicates that $850,000 is allocated for "LGBTQ Senior Housing, Inc., MA, for services for older adults," and $400,000 is allocated for "Garden State Equality Education Fund, Inc., NJ, for trauma-informed strategies to support LGBTQ+ youth."
The text of the appropriations package contains language related to funding border security for foreign nations.
"Up to $500,000,000 of funds appropriated by this Act for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency in 'Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide' may be used to provide assistance to the Government of Jordan to support the armed forces of Jordan and to enhance security along its borders," one section of the measure states.
"Of the amounts appropriated in this Act under the heading 'Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide', for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, $380,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025, shall be available to reimburse Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman under section 1226 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (22 U.S.C. 2151 note), for enhanced border security, of which not less than $150,000,000 shall be for Jordan," another section reads.
A number of Republicans have declared that they will vote against the proposal.
"I'm a definite NO on this minibus," GOP Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona tweeted.
"The system is absolutely BROKEN! I am a HARD NO on the D.C. Cartel’s minibus," Republican Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana tweeted.
"It's a no from me on this monstrosity of a spending bill," GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida tweeted.
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