Posted on 12/02/2021 9:41:40 PM PST by blueplum
Members of Congress say they still can’t get clear answers about the U.S evacuation effort in Afghanistan, but they’re being asked to approve an additional $7 billion to manage the pipeline of people still coming and the tens of thousands of Afghans already here.
House Democrats announced the $7 billion item early Thursday as part of a stopgap spending bill to keep the government running past a Friday shutdown deadline, buying time for lawmakers to try to hash out a broader spending deal for fiscal year 2022.
The evacuee money, agreed to by top Republicans and Democrats, comes on top of $6.3 billion included in the last stopgap bill in late September, as the price tag for the chaotic withdrawal continues to rise....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Like anyone is actually counting anymore.
And how do we know that this enormous price tag for Mushbrain’s sheer incompetence is actually going to be used for its stated purpose and not just pissed away for various libtard pet causes?
7 BILLION?! What are they buying mansions in Palm Springs for each refugee?
that huge sucking noise you hear is your retirement dollars going down the drain of inflation
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The $7 billion will be deducted from the Defense Authorization bill (along with the other appropriate deductions) pending in the House.
The sucking sound is not by the spending, but by the printing : 40% of all money printed in the history of the US(1) has been printed in the last year. The more money printed, the less the retirement dollar is worth.
(1) Heard on financial show by monetary guy
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