$1,700,000,000,000

[JABIII]

Dem Sen. Murphy: Omnibus Won’t Be Extraordinarily Inflationary — Much of ‘Big Emergency Numbers’ in It Go Overseas

On Tuesday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) stated that the omnibus spending bill does have “some big emergency numbers” but “much of” those large emergency funds are going overseas and he doesn’t expect the bill to have “any extraordinary inflationary effect.” Murphy also stated that we’re having “much-needed downward pressure on inflation.”

Co-host Jim Sciutto asked, “So, first on the topline number. This bill comes in at $1.7 trillion. As The Wall Street Journal noted, that’s getting nearly as large as the $1.9 trillion March 2020 COVID relief bill, given ongoing inflation and price hikes, is this an inflationary budget?”

Murphy responded, “What you’re seeing is much-needed downward pressure on inflation. What we’re funding in this bill are essential services. This is mostly a bill about obligations, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. There are some big emergency numbers in this bill. But much of that is going overseas. 40-plus billion dollars for Ukraine. I don’t think there’s anything in this bill that isn’t absolutely necessary for the health of the country. I don’t anticipate that it’ll have any extraordinary inflationary effect.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022...t-go-overseas/

[turbo]

So, mostly going overseas. But, also mostly about obligations, SS, Medicare, and Medicaid?

Suuuuuuuuuure.

[Remy]

Just another nice day's work from our congressmen. Monopoly money

[BigBrother]

We sure went through 1.9 trillion fast. will the 1.7 trillion be enough? Cant we slide that decimal point a little further right so we dont have to keep placing all these orders at the printing press?

[Duck Tape]

Spending Categories (not the percentages in this bill)
19 % Social Security.
15 % Health.
14 % Income Security.
12 % National Defense.
12 % Medicare.
11 % Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services.
8 % Net Interest.
4 % Veterans Benefits and Services.

In reality if you combine the giveaways they make up 40%.


Balance the budget.

[JABIII]

Rep. Bishop reveals 'sinister' feature in omnibus bill on family planning, threats to biodiversity
Congress released over 4,000 pages of its upcoming spending bill

By Lindsay Kornick | Fox News
December 21, 2022

Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., highlighted a "sinister" feature in the omnibus bill released on Tuesday that allocates funds for "reproductive health" in areas where "population growth threatens biodiversity."

The massive $1.7 trillion bill was released earlier that day with the expectations that Congress shall vote on it Wednesday. Several Republican figures, including Bishop, criticized the 4,200-page bill as more wasteful spending from the federal government passed without any clear knowledge of what’s in the text.

Bishop documented many of the examples from his Twitter account, including over half a billion dollars into "reproductive health" in places that could threaten endangered species.

"On a more sinister note, here's at least $575 million for ‘family planning’ in areas where population growth ‘threatens biodiversity.’ Malthusianism is a disturbing, anti-human ideology that should have ZERO place in any federal program," Bishop tweeted.

Several Twitter users attacked this idea of not only promoting abortions but appearing to support reducing population growth.

"Spending taxpayer money to save nature by aborting babies. Nightmarish," Daily Caller news editor Grayson Quay tweeted.

"There's a chilling anti-human synergy between the Left's pet projects, from throttling energy production and raising the cost of living to outright killing people in the womb. It's all about making fewer, less vibrant, and wholly dependant people. It's truly evil," Minnesota House Representative-elect Walter Hudson wrote.

"Further proof leftists believe humans are nothing more than a virus on the earth," Breitbart News reporter Hannah Bleau exclaimed.

"This is profoundly disturbing. Kudos to whoever found it," Heritage Foundation analyst David Ditch tweeted.

"This is incredibly messed up. Sure, let's protect endangered species--but let's not do so at the expense of peoples' lives," The Daily Signal editor-in-chief Katrina Trinko commented.

Bishop also highlighted several other measures in the bill, including the naming of a building after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, $524.4 million for a DEI and "structural racism" National Institute of Health subdivision and the explicit prohibition of funds going to the Customs and Border Patrol "to acquire, maintain or extend border security technology and capabilities."

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was himself questioned on the bill by CNN's Manu Raju on the lack of time Congress members have to read the bill before voting on it.

"The bill has been carefully worked on by the Appropriations Committee for a very, very long time," Schumer said. "Most of the provisions were well known weeks and weeks and weeks in advance, and getting this bill done for the American people, which really matters, is the most important thing."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/rep-bi...s-biodiversity

[Gander]

Pelosi will come along Shortly to tell us we need to pass it so we can see what's in it.

[centurian]

This will tickle you pro lifer's fancy.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/rep-bi...s-biodiversity

[bigtimeduckhunter]

Spending Categories (not the percentages in this bill)
19 % Social Security.
15 % Health.
14 % Income Security.
12 % National Defense.
12 % Medicare.
11 % Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services.
8 % Net Interest.
4 % Veterans Benefits and Services.

In reality if you combine the giveaways they make up 40%.


Balance the budget.

What is “income security?”

[Sasha and Abby]

You get the government you deserve.
Over the last 25 years, politicians have learned that they can tack on as much useless garbage as they desire to the federal budget, if they wait until the last minute to tack it on before the budget is voted on. This way, no one has time to actually READ the entire 4000 pages to see if the agree to vote on every amendment.

EACH amendment should be voted on it OWN MERIT. This kind of behavior will BANKRUPT our country. As it stands now, we are overdrawn to the tune of $90,000.00+ for every man, woman and child. You people better start saving up because the bill will come due at some point.

[centurian]

That is the problem with an omnibus bill. This is not a true budget and has everything they can think of slipped in there. I say shut the fed down they just waste money anyway.