Posted on 12/25/2020 12:54:44 PM PST by rktman
President Donald Trump has urged Congress to increase the amount of the direct relief payments to Americans to $2,000 by cutting out the unrelated pork in the coronavirus rescue package and government spending bill. Breitbart News has calculated how much that increase would cost and what could be cut from the 5,593-page omnibus bill to offset it.
The House and Senate passed the combined $900 billion coronavirus relief package and $1.4 trillion government spending bill on Monday night, but the massive 5,593-page omnibus bill immediately drew criticism for sending billions of dollars of aid to foreign countries while only allotting $600 relief checks for Americans.
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Some suggested cuts to Porkorama:
$8 billion for the Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism
$1.7 billion for USAID operations abroad
$26.5 billion for “Bilateral Economic Assistance” abroad
$3.3 billion for “Global Health Programs”
$4.4 billion for “International Disaster Assistance”
$3.4 billion for “Refugee Assistance”
$2.4 billion for “democracy programs”
$1.7 billion for Jordan
$1.9 billion for “international food aid”
$35 billion in new clean energy initiatives to fight climate change
$9 billion for “international security assistance”
$5.9 billion for the “President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)”
$950 million for “basic education” programs in foreign countries
$740.3 million for “educational and cultural exchange” programs in foreign countries
$1.5 billion for “Contributions to International Organizations”
$224 million tax breaks for motor sports venues
$16 billion tax credit for businesses that hire individuals facing “significant barriers to employment”
$1 billion tax credit for “special expensing rules for entertainment productions”
$13 billion tax breaks for clean energy initiatives
$9 billion in tax credits for beer, wine, and distilled spirits producers
$2 billion “to enable better scientific information about the Earth and its changing climate”
$16.2 billion in excess funding for transportation, housing, and urban development
$19.2 billion in excess funding for the Department of Labor, Department of Education, and Health and Human Services
$6.9 billion in excess funding for energy and water development
$12.3 billion in excess funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency
TOTAL CUTS: $203,814,000,000
Just suggestions though. Merry Christmas everyone.
Raising tariffs to pay for it. Tariffs increase revenue and promotes domestic industry. WIN - WIN - WIN.
In lieu of a Coronavirus stimulus check, we have made a donation to the following countries in your name. Merry Christmas!
Signed,
Nancy Pelosi"
Tried to call Rep leaders, phone mailboxes weren’t accepting voicemails. Message said boxes were full. If true and not BSing, pressure is on to make big changes.
Did President Trump not already veto the Swinebill, and now it’s moot?
If so, with Peloony’s seeming agreement to a $2,000 individual and $4,000 to couples stimulus payment (”Let’s do it!), will she again try to attach the former Swinebill trichinosis plague?
No no no that would cut into the kickback game they won’t have such talk.
He sent it back telling the to boost it to 2 grand and remove some of the pork. Nanzi said okay, house minority leader said no because the didn’t de-pork it. Now, Zzzzzzzzzzzzz
It’s just not spending money you don’t have. It’s not saving anything.
No, not really.
Pelosi wanted unanimous consent without a recorded vote, and no accounting of what the bill actually was.
It was a blank check.
The Repubs were correct not to agree to that.
The Republicans refused to do it by unanimous consent.
Quick math
Porkulus bill cost: $900 B
Population of US: 330 M
So the rat bastard Congress packs together every piece of pork they can lay their hands on, generates a 5,000 page “bill” costing every man, woman, and child in the US $2,727 and they toss back $600 to you for their theft.
It was a blessing Pres. Trump did not sign this insane bill. It is a bill representative of the extraction of wealth from US tax payers and the transfer of that wealth to the politically connected.
The bill is theft masquerading as relief.
Well tomorrow 30 million Americans lose all federal unemployment benefits and 30 million Americans face eviction in a week.
What now?
President Trump is an “America First” President!
Until this Chinese Communist Coronavirus problem is solved, ALL federal expenditures should be FOR AMERICA AND AMERICANS ONLY!
I say that we should end all foreign aid until we have our own country’s economic situation under control!
WHAT ARE THEY THINKING!
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AGAIN!
And then, give some thought to saving the rest of the world.
$600 to every citizen is about 190 billion. $2000 is about 640 billion. Screw the pork and save 160 billion.
Or better yet, open up the economy and quit the flu fear.
Congress is not capable of puling together enough votes on anything without loading tons of pork to buy off individual legislators. Sorry, but it is true.
They have no concept of doing what is right for the Country.
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