Elon Musk’s poll on $1.7T spending, Pelosi & Dems earmarks, GOPs big win?


Elon Musk put up a Twitter poll this past week to give users on Twitter an opportunity to vote on whether the $1.7 trillion spending bill should pass. The poll results were released and more than 71% of those voting preferred that the bill not pass. Musk shared his own opinion on the bill: “I’m in favor of a small spending bill to keep things running, but common sense suggests that it be the least amount required through the holidays. Railroading through a giant spending bill that almost no one has read is unlikely to be in the best interests of the people.” Musk then made it a point to share the results with Uniparty Senators Schumer and McConnell noting that Twitter users are “overwhelmingly against the giant spending bill.” Musk also responded to Senators Sinema and Tester on whether Senator Mike Lee’s tweet was corrupt: “An amendment by Sens Sinema & Tester is designed to ensure a porous border. A wolf in sheep’s clothing to mislead the American people to believe Dems are doing something to secure our borders. It merely provides them cover to vote against my extension of Title 42 protections.”

On 12/20/2022, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) was joined by Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), , Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) in a press conference to oppose the $1.7 trillion, 4,000+ page omnibus spending bill and argue in favor of additional amendments. Senator Lee said, “I’ve got a number of friends who have detailed a number of the more absurd examples of the carve outs that they’ve used to barter and thereby procure the advanced votes of a number of my colleagues as some of which are absurd a few of them were identified by my friend Scott Parkinson curiously there were a few members whose names appeared quite repeatedly and prominently at these. For example you’ll be very pleased to know that in this we’ve got the federal building on 7th street in San Francisco that’s named for speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi. And you’ve got the our Senate appropriations committee chair Patrick Leahy what was just the Lake Champlain Basin program is now going to be the Patrick Leahy Lake Champlain Basin program. And we’re also stuffing an additional 35 million dollars a year each year every year between now and 2027. I’m sure that’s just a coincidence that he’s the approach chair and that’s also on there. Oh also our colleague Richard Shelby from Alabama I guess there are still a few things in Alabama that have yet to be named after Richard Shelby he’s got someone there as well including an FBI arsenal building down there if you like presidential museums you love love this one because we’ve got six million dollars for the Ulysses s grant museum it needs an overhaul to the tune of six million dollars. One of my favorites might be the 1.7 billion dollars that goes to transportation structures and infrastructure develops specifically to combat climate change that’s in there too.”

“Some republicans are trying to call it a big win I’m sorry I have a hard time calling that a big win when unite all 50 democrats sharply divide republicans getting I don’t know probably 10 to 20 votes to support this I understand how that’s a big win for republicans especially right after we’ve just had an election & control of the house has now shifted from democrats to republicans I don’t understand that math I don’t understand that logic but it’s not right you know there’s something more to this this isn’t just about the balance of this fiscal year it’s that and we’re giving them way too much on that but it’s that this then becomes the norm this resets the defaults such that if heaven forbid we get to the end of this fiscal year there is an agreement on a series of spending bills or one big one or whatever we may for a period of time perhaps a long period of time end up operating on the basis of a continuing resolution guess which levels this then extends these higher levels ladies and gentlemen this is why we’re 31 trillion dollars in debt because of stuff like this it’s making the American people poorer it’s destabilizing our economy it’s making it so that the average Utah family now finds life unaffordable having to shell out an additional one thousand dollars a month every single month for their basic monthly necessities this is wrong it’s got to stop and it will not stop until members of congress including U.S senators elected as republicans committed to some semblance of fiscal conservative refuse to vote for bills that they have not read that they do not understand that are cobbled together and that impoverish the American people they do a lot of good but most of that good is for special interests and for the popularity of the politicians who vote for these things who will get a big bump for the moment when they get praised by the public and by the media and by special interest.”

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Elon Musk’s poll on $1.7T spending, Pelosi & Dems earmarks, GOPs big win?

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