Posted on 05/30/2023 7:04:16 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
On Tuesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) stated that communities are worried about the clawback of COVID money in the debt ceiling bill because “they thought they had until 2024 to spend that money.” And that she has been telling communities, “if you need that money, you should be spending it now.”
Dingell said, “First of all, I still feel like we’re being held hostage. The fact of the matter is, the country cannot default, period. And the consequences are scary and intimidating. We would be harming our economy for years to come, hurting seniors, veterans, children. I could go through the list. So, default is not an option. But that’s why we’re being held hostage, because I am one of the people that has read all 100 pages of this bill. And I have been asking questions for three days and there are things in this bill that I would clearly not support.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
What, they haven’t spent it all on drugs, booze and strippers yet?
“Communities” should never have a worry.
“The fact of the matter is, the country cannot default, period.”
The fact is the USA defaulted under FDR in the 1930’s when the USA refused to pay off WWI debt in gold as the USA had contracted to do.
In the 1780’s the Continental Congress was run out of Philadelphia after not paying American Revolutionary War soldiers as promised.
COVID money was meant to be spent to deal with COVID.
COVID is ‘licked’ according to the President of the United States.
She’s been stuck on stupid for many decades, remember her POS hubby who was the epitome of democrat scumbags. It is nauseating just to think about that chitstain on humanity.
My suggestion is that Democrats in the House should vote ‘no’ on Wednesday.
How dare Republicans give Democrats $4 trillion to squander instead of $80 billion!
“COVID money was meant to be spent to deal with COVID.”
It is being spent for reasons zero connected with Covid.
Money for energy efficiency improvements, transportation .
It’s a wide open funnel .
“John David Dingell Jr. (July 8, 1926 – February 7, 2019) was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1955 until 2015.”
“Dingell began his congressional career by succeeding his father, John Dingell Sr., as representative for Michigan’s 16th congressional district on December 13, 1955; his father had held the seat for 22 years.”
“At the beginning of every Congress, Dingell introduced a bill providing for a national health insurance system, the same bill that his father proposed while he was in Congress.”
Dingell....and his committee uncovered numerous instances of corruption and waste, such as the use of $600 toilet seats at the Pentagon. He also claimed that the committee’s work led to resignations of many Environmental Protection Agency officials, and uncovered information that led to legal proceedings that sent many Food and Drug Administration officials to jail.”
“Debbie Dingell, is a descendant of one of the Fisher brothers, founders of Fisher Body, a constituent part of General Motors. She worked as a lobbyist for the corporation until they married.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dingell
Democratic politicians will have an eternity to spend in Hell.
Correction: they thought they had until 2024 to piss away.
Many republican ones too
Translation - “We were planning on using it to help steal the next election”....
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