by pinkunicorn53
The 1.7 trillion dollar spending bill for America includes 10 million dollars for “gender programs in Pakistan” and $410 million for border security in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, and Tunisia
Sorry, there’s no money available to secure the US – Mexico border from drug cartels, but we got $410 million for border security in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, and Tunisia.
Also we don’t have enough to build houses for homeless veterans this time, but we do have $3 million to build a LGBTQ+ Museum in New York City and another $1.2 million for an LGBTQ Pride Center in California.
And let’s not forget to spend another $858,000,000,000 on the military in case we get attacked by extra-terrestrial space aliens.
Surely none of this will fuel inflation, we’ll just print some more money if we become poor!
via based-politics:
1. $4.5 billion in improper small business loans
As part of the government’s massive, multi-trillion-dollar “stimulus” efforts, the Small Business Administration gave out 44,920 loans that were likely ineligible and/or fraudulent—to the tune of $4.5 billion wasted. That’s nearly 40% of the total loans given out. Just phenomenal stuff.
2. $140 million on a luxury spa in Florida
As part of its COVID-19 spent, the federal government gave out bailout money for state and local governments like candy on Halloween. It’s perhaps unsurprising, then, that some of it went to truly absurd purposes like Broward County, Florida spending $140 million of federal “COVID relief” money to build “800-room luxury hotel overlooking the Atlantic Ocean that includes 30,000 square feet of pool decks, a rooftop bar, and even a 11,000-square-foot spa and fitness center.”
3. $31.5 million to help criminals buy luxury cars
The federal government’s COVID-19 benefit programs were put together so hastily and with so few guardrails that they became a scammer’s dream. Sen. Paul highlights one glaring example of the runaway fraud: criminals used $31.5 million in federal COVID relief money, much of which hasn’t been recovered, to buy luxury cars including Corvettes, Porsches, Lamborghinis, and Ferraris.
4. $210 million to improve education in Jordan
American schools are failing many students, but our federal government spent hundreds of millions trying to improve education in a random Middle Eastern country. That’s right, according to this report, the feds spent $210 million to build schools, improve the Ministry of Education, and much more—in Jordan.
5. $3 million injecting hamsters with steroids
The federal government has given Northeastern University more than $3 million to inject hamsters with steroids and watch them fight, Senator Paul reports. That sounds almost as cruel as it is pointless.
6. $118 thousand to study Thanos’s finger-snapping
Marvel nerds will get a kick out of this one. The federal government actually gave Georgia Tech more than $118,000 to study whether Thanos could’ve really snapped his fingers, as he famously did in the 2018 movie Avengers: Infinity War, while wearing metal gloves. They concluded that this fictional scene was not, in fact, possible, answering a burning question at the top of millions of Americans’ minds.
7. $1.7 billion to maintain empty buildings
The federal government is so incompetent that it can’t even easily sell-off unused properties. As a result, it has spent billions maintaining empty buildings, Sen. Paul reports, in a depressing but deeply symbolic farce.
The Total
All in all, Paul identified more than $482 billion in waste. That comes out to an astounding $3,300 per federal taxpayer. What would you have done with that extra money this year?
The massive omnibus bill that recently made its way through the Senate, in part by turncoat Republicans, has three-quarters of a million dollars earmarked for a group trying to force LGBT indoctrination into elementary schools.
On December 22nd, the Senate passed the $1.7 trillion omnibus package, with reportedly $45 billion going to Ukraine and an additional “$38 billion for emergency disaster assistance,” according to a report from The Hill.
But of the numerous earmarks and handouts contained within this package, one, in particular, stands out due to the topical concerns surrounding the grooming of youths and controversial subject matter being injected into public schools – in this case, a $750K earmark for a Los Angeles coalition pushing for LGBT indoctrination in elementary schools.
Fox News reports that the group “TransLatin@” (pronounced “trans-Latina”) is getting their hands on three-quarters of a million dollars, courtesy of U.S. taxpayers, to proceed with their agenda to “‘dismantle’ the U.S. criminal justice system and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and inject ‘transgender history and discourse’ into elementary schools, among other progressive initiatives.”
President Biden and the Democrat-led Congress have appropriated about $48 billion for Ukraine since the Russian invasion began in February not counting the $45 billion in the spending bill passed by the Senate on Thursday.
6 examples of pork in the 1.7$ Trillion Omnibus Bill