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[–] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

The roll call shows votes all over the place. Looking closer at the bill, we see it's a consolidated appropriations[^appropriations] 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?

[^appropriations]: Congress votes on regular appropriations bills every year.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    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?

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