The worst part of it is that buried in there is an approximate 50% raise for House members. And an exemption from Obamacare.
“And an exemption from Obamacare”
Didn’t these thieves put this in at the time? Perhaps it’s just redundancy to protect themselves from government programs that are subject to us little people.
Most of these are multi-million-dollar funds "to remain available until expended". That is a lot of slush funding.
Nowhere in this document is any total provided of the proposed expenditures or any comparison with available revenue to meet them.
Some questionable items:
Department of Agriculture
Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act ($1,640,000,000)
Office of Secretary funds for expenses related to farm losses ($30,780,000,000)
Block Grants to "eligible" States (which ones?) for expenses related to farm losses ($220,000,000)
Emergency Watershed Protection Program, ($920,000,000)
Department of Commerce
Economic Development Assistance Programs ($1,510,000,000)
NOAA Operations Research and Facilities ($244,000,000)
"Fisheries Disaster Assistance" ($300,000,000)
Bureau of Indian Affairs
State and Tribal Assistance Grants ($3,000,000,000)
General Slush Funding
There appears to be several dozen projects scattered throughout all of the Department totaling well over $100 billion to "remain available until expended, for necessary expenses related to damages caused by Hurricanes Helene and Milton". Everybody wants a piece of this.
Review Committees and required Reporting
There are over a dozen requirements for various Departments to establish new committees to generate reports to Congress. Some of these requirements are for up to ten years. All of them appear to be useless.
Medicaid Eligibility Expansion
This one can collapse the entire American Healthcare system all by itself. There is absolutely no funding available to cover the mandated expansion of eligibility. Unchecked medical expenses can crash the government, within two or three years at present exponential rates of increase.