2022 Defense Bill spends $847B, an $80B increase from last year, there's more non-defense related amendments than items relating defense for 1st time

[basquebromance]

for that amount of money, you could feed every hungry child in the world, or hire 1 million school teachers. the United States is the world leader in kinetic hard military power, do we really need more weapons of war?

 

[kyzr]

So when the Senate is in gridlock mode, the Bill that HAS to be passed is Defense, so everything is added to that "last helicopter" out of the Senate. The Bill has more non-defense related pages than defense related pages.
That's the new normal.

 

[BluesLegend]

Is that bacon or government PORK I smell??

 

[basquebromance]

A reminder that most Democrats in Congress aren’t antiwar and most Republicans in Congress aren’t fiscally conservative. And neither party cares about representative government. They voted yes on a bill they didn’t read! So much for representing you. NDAA passed overwhelmingly.

 

[basquebromance]

 

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