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Billions in foreign aid, pet projects stuffed into COVID relief bill
New York Post ^ | December 22, 2020 | Steven Nelson

Posted on 12/22/2020 3:55:50 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

Congress swiftly passed a $2.3 trillion COVID-19 relief and government funding bill on Monday that was stuffed with cash for foreign countries and policy pet projects for powerful legislators.

Although the bill authorizes $600 stimulus checks for most Americans, a $300 weekly unemployment supplement and $284 billion in small business loans, it also contains other, more obscure provisions.

The bill adds two National Mall museums, bans the US Postal Service from delivering e-cigarettes and makes online streaming of copyrighted material punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: covid; covidrelief
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1 posted on 12/22/2020 3:55:50 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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President Trump should veto this crap. Let the Congress override if they wish.


2 posted on 12/22/2020 3:59:02 PM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Muslim support bill


3 posted on 12/22/2020 3:59:22 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: ConservativeStatement

Since Republicans have or are voting for it and Trump already tossed in the towell and said he’d sign it, what is there to do but complain and whine. We’ve been ignored for the expediency and pork of our elected officials of both parties. The ultimate kick in the face just in time for Christmas.


4 posted on 12/22/2020 3:59:45 PM PST by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Workers)
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To: ConservativeStatement

From Subtitle E:

“statement of policy regarding the succession or reincarnation of the Dalai Lama”...


5 posted on 12/22/2020 4:00:17 PM PST by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor: Dominion delenda est.)
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To: Islander7

Trump already agreed to sign this treasonous bill as part of the agreement with McConnell and everyone.


6 posted on 12/22/2020 4:00:30 PM PST by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Workers)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I wish they’d stop calling these “pet projects”.

These are arranged groups set up to receive the money, pay off various people in the foreign countries, then funnel millions back into the pockets of those who arranged the funding in the first place. It’s pure kickback, and it’s how the politicians have gotten so wealthy on government salaries. Nobody cares about “trans” programs in Pakistan....they need to dig into who is on the receiving end of the American people’s hard earned tax dollars.


7 posted on 12/22/2020 4:00:42 PM PST by JudyinCanada (Aim low, avoid disappointment.)
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To: butlerweave

Statues for women and Latinos. There was a national outrage over this injustice. Next up: statues for “people who identify as women” as the TV ad for computers boasts,


8 posted on 12/22/2020 4:01:09 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Joe Biden: Commander-in-Cheat. )
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To: rfp1234

Yes, why do we care or have any comment on the Dalai Lama. Let him get a job, write a will, or whatever. He is a so-called religious leader and that is not an affair of state. Not a concern of the US.


9 posted on 12/22/2020 4:01:46 PM PST by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Workers)
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To: Reno89519

Hopefully the president will renege on what his agreement, now that Mitch the _itch is cozying up to Schumer in order to work around a veto of the Defense Bill.


10 posted on 12/22/2020 4:02:04 PM PST by JudyinCanada (Aim low, avoid disappointment.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Including building a dam on Willet Creek?


11 posted on 12/22/2020 4:03:54 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Pathetic


12 posted on 12/22/2020 4:05:15 PM PST by wardamneagle
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To: ConservativeStatement

President Trump should wait till the last moment he can, and veto it. Then make the net congress handle it.


13 posted on 12/22/2020 4:06:54 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: ConservativeStatement

The government is a complete joke and now the biggest threat to our Republic. The level of the depravity is up there with some of the most heinous and corrupt governments ever for which we always waggled our finger.


14 posted on 12/22/2020 4:07:03 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Reno89519

Re. The Dalai Lama: Whatever happened to the “separation of church and state” that the libs all cherish?


15 posted on 12/22/2020 4:07:15 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

It’s very BAD sausage.....


16 posted on 12/22/2020 4:07:16 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

I WOULDN’T BUY IT.


17 posted on 12/22/2020 4:07:46 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: JudyinCanada

Totally correct.

That’s the Biden and Romney fams M.O.


18 posted on 12/22/2020 4:09:15 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: shanover

Just wait until there’s no America to bleed these monies from


19 posted on 12/22/2020 4:13:07 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ConservativeStatement

an immediate executive order defunding and abolishing the irs would be a great Christmas present this year...


20 posted on 12/22/2020 4:13:09 PM PST by heavy metal (your reward will be in heaven not on your paycheck...)
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