Well here’s hoping that $42.5 B and the EV charger scam are on the Musk/ Ramaswamy agenda.
USDA is providing $5.7 billion in funding through the Electric Infrastructure Loan and Loan Guarantee Program to help utility providers and electric cooperatives build and improve electric infrastructure and smart-grid technologies in 23 states.
USDA is also investing nearly $642 million today to expand access to clean and reliable drinking water, sanitary waste disposal and storm water drainage for people in 41 states.
Six and a half for rural electricity and water. Good stuff.
So we have actual data showing that multi millions of dollars spent on rural broadband and ev chargers have been wasted.
Why should we believe this spending will result in anything other than more waste.
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A waste of money but not treasonous.
All I know is that keeping the world’s number one sponsor of terrorism broke is a good idea.
Sadly Biden and company seem pretty immune to the idea of good ideas.
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Absolutely which is why i consider it borderline treasonous.
If that is not treasonous then what this president did at the border is.
And that isn’t even taking into account the human trafficking biden and his cabal is guilty of.
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That’s a good point too.
Along with organizing lawfare against Trump.
Those prosecutors made many trips to the WH.
Yeah they did.
It was a completely white house coordinated effort.
And like everything else biden has done, it failed miserably.
LOL!
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This is off the thread topic but…
I will always believe that Biden should have been removed from office over the border.
What kind of president of the United States allows this country to be invaded and both encourages the invaders to come and lies to the American people about what’s going on.
How many people has he gotten killed or turned into childhood sex slaves as a result, how many billions of dollars wasted, how many communities schools parks hospitals overrun?
That SOB Biden is the single most destructive occupant of the Oval Office in this country’s history…
The man needs to be removed from office
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Promises are as good as actually achieving something.
In government.
Agreed…we have a long sad history in America of well dressed politicians in nice suits with good hair standing in front of the media surrounded by representatives of some special interest or another announcing the investment of gadzillions of taxpayer dollars on some project…and then we never hear an accounting of the results of the investment.
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that’s what most of it is.
It is not even real infrastucture.
It is green spending masquerading as infrastructure.
It is corporate welfare masquerading as infrastructure.
Public:
“We need a bridge and a we need a landfill”
Biden:
“Here I’ll write a check to my donors at the solar-panel company.”
Media and their never-questioning lackeys:
“Slurp slurp. Question? What’s a quesion? Joe Biden is giving infrastructure grants. Lemme post about it on social media so I can feel smart.”
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If it’s going to be built anyway, why shouldn’t it be clean and reliable?
The contracts at the start are for a minimum of $2 million. They will last for up to 10 years with $2.7 billion available for the program.
Up to 2.7 billion for the uranium supply chain.
And
In March, the federal government announced a $1.5 billion conditional commitment to support the reopening of Palisades. The plant, owned by Holtec, has been closed for more than two years. Before that, it had operated for 50 years.
Money for Palisades was announced a while ago, but the article has new pictures of work getting done for the doubtful.
“This would be unprecedented to be able to turn around the closure of a plant, but this is also unprecedented funding that was coming out, so it seemed like it was worth a shot,” Michigan Public Service Commissioner Katherine Peretick told the Michigan Public Radio Network in November 2022. Determined, Holtec reapplied last year, after DOE’s second cycle of funds expanded to include plants, like Palisades, that had recently ceased operations.
It should be noted that Palisades is reopening specifically and exclusively because of an injection of federal funding from the Biden-Harris administration.
If it moves tax it.
If it keeps moving regulate it.
When it stops moving, send it a giant taxpayer funded check and claiming that only Marxism works and businesses are greedy and evil.
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Glad to see Democrats squeeze Francis Scott Key bridge funding out of the Continuing Resolution.
That’s funny. (odd)
The article you linked read in part
"“House Republicans have not signed off on 100% funding for the Key Bridge. The Senate has signed off on that. But we have not been given a good reason why House Republicans continue to object,” (Maryland Sen)Van Hollen told 11 News. “That is the state of play as we speak.”
Yet a simple google search revealed the reasons.
Hmm wat a poorly informed senator Chirs Van Holden, is.
I also remember the day when journalists prided themselves on digging out facts and being investigative etc.
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Maybe we need a multibillion program to bring google search ability to senators and jouralists. Wait no, a multi-trillion program. Those poor senators and journalsits with zero ability to search google. I kinda feel sorry for them. (rolleyes)
I have no problem with the Feds covering 100% of the replacement cost … the bridge needs to be open asap. But then, the excess over the normal Federal match for Interstate Highway construction should be subtracted out of future allocations to the State over the next decade or so.
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Well that was one of the things stopping them from approving it. The US has already authorized a pile of money for a pile of projects that seemed more important at the time. couldn’t we realistically say “Gee the bridge fell down, Our priorities have changed we had better fund that.”
MS copilot says repalcing teh bridge at 100% will cost $1.7-$1.9 billion.
According to the GAO in the 2023 spending plan there is already over $15 billon in earmarks that are location specific and not requested by the WH. (a library that must go in this district** a bridger that must go in that district etc…)
Surely there must be a way to delay $1.9 billion of that for a year so we can rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
