And, when you come down to it, you can't get much more wasteful of public funds than paying people who don't work (welfare). The 'Rats know spending public money in this fashion buys them votes from those they economically enslave. It is my guess that this is where these funds will now go.
That or park statues of congresscritters. Those pretty statues do a lot for the pigeon population.
"you can't get much more wasteful of public funds than paying people who don't work (welfare)"
So true!