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Originally Posted by Reiwa
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I still don't understand mate.
Do you?
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Bro did you READ the link you sourced?
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The authority for discretionary spending stems from annual appropriation acts, which are under the control of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. Most defense, education, and transportation programs, for example, are funded that way, as are a variety of other federal programs and activities. Those appropriations are subject to a set of budget enforcement rules and processes that differ from those that apply to mandatory spending. As the Congress considers appropriation acts, CBO tallies the budget authority those acts would provide and estimates the outlays that would result.
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Outlays for the nation’s three largest entitlement programs (Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid) and for many smaller programs (unemployment compensation, retirement programs for federal employees, student loans, and deposit insurance, for example) are mandatory spending.
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Which is exactly what I've been saying for pages now. Why inject a budget gimmick into this bill that is supposed to be specifically focused on "Burn Pits" and basically create an entirely new welfare/entitlement program with no oversight, no cap with massive spending cooked into the Federal Budget literally on autopilot without any yearly review or budget enforcement.
The CBO even says (and I've pasted it right from their report multiple times) that NORMALLY costs within this bill would be classified as discretionary, but they changed the language on purpose as a gimmick. It's literally a couple sentences in the bill that could have been fixed in a matter of minutes, but Schumer demanded a vote without any amendments because Dems are playing mid term games with Vets HC which is shameless and cynical politicking in an election year
Even the guy that wrote the book on burn pits and our military is calling them out on these shenanigans
You're just rabbit holing with your usual ambiguity and emojis
Embarrassing