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Posted: March 15, 2022 12:01 AM
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With $ 30 trillion in debt – an increase of $ 5 trillion over the past two years, expected to drop another 2 2 trillion in red ink this year – you might have at least expected Congress to pretend that it would temper its reckless spending. But you will be sadly wrong. Congress has just finalized a য়ের 1.5 trillion spending bill that requires 2,741 pages of legal text. The Heritage Foundation estimates that it will take the average congressman more than 300 hours to read the bill, including all its legal goblets. Thus, it is a reasonable assumption that members of Congress have no idea what they voted for. Republicans want more defense spending on the $ 800 billion they pay the Pentagon each year. The United States spends more on defense than China, Russia, India, Great Britain, Germany, and Japan. However, this is not enough to protect our country, in part because the Biden administration is spending billions of dollars on climate change and other green programs at the Pentagon, which will not protect us from any missiles coming from our enemies. , Democrats wanted billions more for domestic programs, including.
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