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Congress Serves Peking Pork
Contra ^ | 4-1-2020 | Pedro Gonzalez

Posted on 04/01/2020 5:09:57 PM PDT by gundisalvus

The coronavirus spending bill includes: • Extension of $48 million in sex-ed funding • $25 million in “salaries and expenses” for the House of Representatives • $60 million for NASA • $500,000 for a water project in Central Utah • $3 million for “forest and rangeland research” by the U.S. Forest Service • $78,000 “payment” to the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development • $99 million for the Department of Energy • $25 million to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts • $75 million in grants to the National Endowment for the Arts • $75 million in grants to the National Endowment for the Humanities • $75 million to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting • $7.5 million to the Smithsonian Institution • $50 million to the Institute of Museum and Library Services • $10 billion loan to the U.S. Postal Service • An $11 billion pot of money for three international development groups: the African Development Fund, the African Development Bank, and the International Development Association. • $350 million for “Migration and Refuge Assistance.” • $850 million toward law enforcement grants with language specifically preventing the Trump administration from withholding the funds from sanctuary cities.

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1 posted on 04/01/2020 5:09:57 PM PDT by gundisalvus
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To: gundisalvus

Is this the new crap bill of the old crap bill?


2 posted on 04/01/2020 5:11:06 PM PDT by madison10
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To: madison10

lol


3 posted on 04/01/2020 5:16:13 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: gundisalvus

bkmk


4 posted on 04/01/2020 5:20:44 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: gundisalvus

And it was done so that nobody has a clue who put that in there. How sweet it is!


5 posted on 04/01/2020 5:31:12 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Jerusalem is the city of the Great King!!!)
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To: madison10

Crap is crap is crap.


6 posted on 04/01/2020 5:35:15 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: gundisalvus

The financial books of EVERY ONE of the projects not virus recovery related needs a thorough audit to uncover transfers of MY tax money to the DNC or other far-left groups

Any such transfers need to be clawed back with a 500% additional penalty


7 posted on 04/01/2020 5:48:51 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Too bad we can’t lock congress up. Really hate these people. Both sides. ....

Really sad when we ignore the Veterans. Screw Congress.


8 posted on 04/01/2020 6:48:24 PM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: madison10

From this it looks like the one passed.

$25 million to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts


9 posted on 04/01/2020 8:22:54 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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