Posted on 03/06/2024 1:03:49 PM PST by knighthawk
Ultra-conservative Republicans are railing against the 605 pages of earmarks that will be included in a $460 billion spending package to fund six agencies of government that will come up for a vote on Wednesday.
The earmarks have already caused scandal within the Senate, where Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman's office rescinded support for a $1 million earmark for an LGBTQ center in Pennsylvania that hosts BDSM parties.
The funding caused a backlash on social media, prompting Fetterman, who was long one of the staunchest pro-LGBTQ lawmakers in the Keystone State, to have the earmark removed.
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IMHO you don’t have to be an “Ultra-conservative Republican” to rail against government pork.
“It’s a big club and you ain’t in it!” - George Carlin.....................
Bkmk.
Shut it down!
$1 million earmark for an LGBTQ center in Pennsylvania that hosts BDSM parties.
“Ultra-conservative Republicans”
They say “government shutdown” like it would be a bad thing.
What would you expect from Congre$$?
That’s code for bigots who think $34 trillion in Federal debt is too much.
Everyone knows “there’s an infinite amount of cash at the Federal Reserve”!
Alabama state route 167 will get $20 million thanks to GOP Sen. Katie Britt.
The NAACP headquarters in Baltimore will get $500,000 thanks to Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.
A boy scout camp, Camp Maluhia, will get $1 million for a new dining hall thanks to Sen. Brian Schatz.
Rep. Greg Steube, a Republican of Florida, will get $190,000 for a ‘shark repellent study’ in Sarasota
Angoon, Alaska, a town of 349 people, will get $3 million for landfill and waste management improvement, as requested by Mukowski.
Chattanooga, Tennessee will get $6.4 million to ‘support’ 1.3 miles of trails on the Alton Park Connector, thanks to Republican Rep. Chuck Fleischmann.
The Drummond Culinary Academy in Monterey, California will get $1 million thanks to Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren.
An opera house in Vergennes, Vermont will get $500,000 to improve accessibility, thanks to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and the under-3,000-person-town of Berlin, Vermont will get $1.6 million for pedestrian infrastructure in the town center.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., was particularly successful at getting funding for projects in his state ... included in the bill with eight projects included - $5 million for a pedestrian overpass at Coastal Carolina University, $7 million for ‘economic development’ of Charleston County, $6 million for the Saluda Grade rail trail on South Carolina, $10 million for an ROTC facility at the University of South Carolina, $2 million for public land improvement and $2 million for Ramsey Grove State Park improvement, and $750,000 for waterline and fire safety improvement in Beaufort.
Republicans in the lower chamber banned earmarks with the Tea Party wave in 2011, citing abuse and corruption, and the Democrat-led Senate did so soon after under President Obama. But a decade later in 2021, both parties brought them back.
Alabama state route 167 will get $20 million thanks to GOP Sen. Katie Britt.
The NAACP headquarters in Baltimore will get $500,000 thanks to Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.
A boy scout camp, Camp Maluhia, will get $1 million for a new dining hall thanks to Sen. Brian Schatz.
Rep. Greg Steube, a Republican of Florida, will get $190,000 for a ‘shark repellent study’ in Sarasota
Angoon, Alaska, a town of 349 people, will get $3 million for landfill and waste management improvement, as requested by Mukowski.
Chattanooga, Tennessee will get $6.4 million to ‘support’ 1.3 miles of trails on the Alton Park Connector, thanks to Republican Rep. Chuck Fleischmann.
The Drummond Culinary Academy in Monterey, California will get $1 million thanks to Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren.
An opera house in Vergennes, Vermont will get $500,000 to improve accessibility, thanks to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and the under-3,000-person-town of Berlin, Vermont will get $1.6 million for pedestrian infrastructure in the town center.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., was particularly successful at getting funding for projects in his state ... included in the bill with eight projects included - $5 million for a pedestrian overpass at Coastal Carolina University, $7 million for ‘economic development’ of Charleston County, $6 million for the Saluda Grade rail trail on South Carolina, $10 million for an ROTC facility at the University of South Carolina, $2 million for public land improvement and $2 million for Ramsey Grove State Park improvement, and $750,000 for waterline and fire safety improvement in Beaufort.
Republicans in the lower chamber banned earmarks with the Tea Party wave in 2011, citing abuse and corruption, and the Democrat-led Senate did so soon after under President Obama. But a decade later in 2021, both parties brought them back.
Oops ... sorry about the double post.
Could we save a few bucks by combining the BDSM party and the shark repellant studies?
It’s worse than that, if you disagree with even $1 million in spending on tranny causes you’re an ultra conservative bigot.
Could we save a few bucks by combining the BDSM party and the shark repellant studies?
This ridiculous spending has to stop. It isn’t a federal government issue.
All graft
Sometimes Congress acts as a gang of criminals.
The most shocking taxpayer-funded earmarks agreed to in Congress.
Translation : How career politicians get reelected pick a
party.
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