• lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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    The roll call shows votes all over the place. Looking closer at the bill, we see it’s a consolidated appropriations[1] act covering 3 appropriations acts

    • Department of Defense
    • Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies
    • Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies.

    The CBO cost estimate shows spending for those departments & agencies with increases to

    • medicaid
    • medicare
    • human service programs
    • public health programs
    • World Trade Center health program.

    It’s not entirely for military spending. Is this article biased or misleading?


    1. Congress votes on regular appropriations bills every year. ↩︎

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      Yes it’s extremely biased.

      Progressive critics say the vote exposes the fecklessness and hypocrisy of what claims to be an opposition party.

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      So it’s one of those “shut down the entire government” bills that allow the minority to set the agenda, create a political crisis and make the majority have to be talking about bread and butter issues instead of waging culture and threatening literal wars?

      I mean, do you even want to disrupt the trumpist machine?