Congress's INSANE $1.7 *Trillion* Dollar Spending Spree [Details]

Congress has just revealed their 1.7

trillion dollar spending package is is a

4155 page Bill

1500 pages more than last year that's

like a whole stimulus Bill more of pages

than last year's spending bill now of

course this does avert a government a

shutdown should it be passed which of

course it is expected to be passed and

that it can sometimes be nice to go into

the holidays knowing we're not going to

have a shutdown but it's also going to

come with a whole lot more spending and

some of it raises some eyebrows we're

going to talk about just that in this

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into the program of congress's spending

so defense spending is expected to be up

850 or up to 858 billion dollars for

this particular spending package for

next year that's up 76 billion dollars

about eightish percent 40 billion

dollars for disaster relief think

hurricanes fires uh earthquakes right

electoral count reform now this is an

interesting one this tries to basically

prevent Another January 6 from happening

by making it clear that the vice

president's role is simply to count the

votes publicly in Congress and that he

doesn't have any power to actually stop

the transfer of power remember Mike that

it depends you know hey maybe Mike Pence

can just

refuse to count and there the electoral

votes and therefore maybe the transfer

power could stop that was a thesis uh at

the end of 2020 and the beginning of

2021.

now there are also 16 billion dollars in

earmarks in this legislation which 16

billion dollars is is a smaller fraction

of the 1.7 trillion dollars that's in

this entire package but earmarks are

really interesting because earmarks are

basically this tool that allows Senators

to put individual little requests in a

bill and they stick those requests in a

bill like what I was looking at was

857 thousand dollars for a new fire

truck and it can be really really

specific little line items and what's

fascinating about it is when you

actually look at the Appropriations

website and then you think to yourself

okay I'm going to start going through

all of the Appropriations at first

you're like okay all right so Senator

Baldwin's got some in here he's got 4.3

billion dollars for the construction of

a new food bank serving Western

Wisconsin or 2.5 million dollars for

child care center Construction and

Equipment okay like some of these seem

reasonable like hey these are

improvements to local areas maybe

improvements to Public Safety but then

when you try to understand how many of

these line item entries there are to

actually go through them and like who's

going to actually check on all of these

right there are 14 048 appropriation

requests apparently when you go through

this Appropriations uh segment of the

Senate website now those don't

necessarily all have to be related to

this bill but it's just like oh man

those are a lot of line items and you

know most of these are probably just uh

whatever slide it in and one of the

reasons we know that is because there's

one individual who happens to be

retiring and this individual is sliding

in a whole lot of them Richard Shelby

who is a retiring from the Senate uh as

someone on the Appropriations Committee

has

656 million dollars in appropriation

requests inserted into this particular

bill

17 projects in total just for one

Senator so one Senator basically is

getting 656 million dollars to Dole out

to departments like the Port Authority

Department of Transportation hey go fix

that road by my house I'm not saying

he's doing that just staying like hey

I'll get you that if you fix that road

over there hey I'll get you like

that's Congress for you right like could

you imagine being an individual with the

power to have 656 million dollars money

you could give away you will get invited

to everyone's parties okay there are so

many earmarks that's crazy some of the

big ones are a 45 billion dollars in the

actual bill moving away from earmarks

now the actual bill some of the big

items in the actual bill are 45 billion

dollars of more funding for Ukraine

that's actually more than the 37 billion

dollars that Joe Biden requested some

say that it's actually more than Joe

Biden requested because Democrats think

this might be the last opportunity they

have before Republicans take over to

send money to Ukraine and as a result

what do we have we have Mr zielinski

President zielinski himself coming and

traveling from Ukraine to DC to conduct

his first in-person joint meeting with

Joe Biden at 2PM and they will be since

the invasion and they will be conducting

a public joint statement in front of

Congress at 4 30 PM eastern time today

so stay tuned for that that's about 1 30

Pacific time we'll get to see zielinski

and Biden together make a statement

zelenski is

nailing timing pretty well here I'd say

as he's coming right as it seems like

Congress is about to hand him almost

another 50 billion dollars I guess I

would make the flight over to America as

well for 50 billion dollars

there's also a segment for Michelle

Obama Trail for 3.6 million dollars

Nancy Pelosi is apparently getting her

name on a building there is a tick tock

ban that is a ban for a removal of tick

tock on any government devices and a ban

disallowing Tech talk from being able to

be installed on any government devices

this has to do with uh spy concerns by

work concerns contact downloading

concerns from the Chinese Communist

party and potentially implications that

you know could sneak through uh tick

tock's data servers if data happens to

also be stored in Asia and outside of

America which so far it seems like

research is suggesting copies of data

that's supposed to stay in the United

States has already been found or copies

of that data have already been found in

places like Singapore and that's leading

people to be a little bit concerned that

oh maybe Tick Tock Isn't So safe on our

phone there are some new tax rules

around a land easements that are given

to the government for big tax write-offs

this is actually in my opinion a direct

slam on Donald Trump who took massive

tax write-offs using these sorts of

strategies and those have come under

scrutiny lately so that slipped into

here we've seen a security boost listen

to this one the Capitol Police will

extend protective details for the former

house speaker for up to one year after

they leave office and we know that Nancy

Pelosi is about to step down from being

the house speaker and of course her

husband was violently attacked in San

Francisco potentially longer as well if

warranted so kind of an Open Door there

to potentially have security forever and

also two and a half million dollars of

funding for residential Security

Programs for senators I'm kind of

thinking to myself what are they going

to install like a hundred ring cameras

and charge you know 10 grand a piece for

them or I guess I'd be more like 25

Grand a piece for them who knows anyway

uh what's a not in this bill and then

I'm going to go through some actual

Provisions here on screen are an

extension to the child tax credit

remember that was thirty six hundred

dollars per year per child uh up to six

years old and then three thousand

dollars per child six to Seventeen years

old for the 2021 tax year half of that

was paid in 2021 and uh the other half

was paid when you filed your taxes this

year for 2021. the Cannabis safe Banking

Act did not make it into this bill as

well but don't worry some things that

did make it into the build are the

following we here have here yehiri for

necessary expenses associated with

Pacific salmon populations yes salmon

populations are getting 65 million

dollars some folks are calling this

fishy although it is worth noting that

Canada is spent is spending like 647

million Canadian dollars so I guess

that's probably way less than we're

spending uh I'm kidding on slowing the

decline of the salmon population in the

Pacific so this is actually an issue but

some people are pointing this out as

fishy anyway there is 7.5 million

dollars here in funding towards

developing a better understanding for

domestic radicalization phenomena that

this would be like School shooters and

things like that it's like okay well

what are they going to spend that seven

and a half million dollars on Don't

Shoot the schools who knows here's

another section here of the amounts

appropriated in this act there will be

410 million dollars that shall be

available to reimburse Georgia Lebanon

Egypt Tunisia and Oman

for the National Defense authorization

act now keep in mind every single year

we do a budget uh everybody freaks out

over the foreign aid that is sent uh to

other countries now keep in mind every

single year we have any kind of foreign

aid in a bill it automatically attracts

attention from individuals to say we

should spend all of that money only on

America and not on foreign aid for the

rest of the world we have a total of

about 51 billion dollars of annual

foreign aid expenses to other countries

and you can actually go to foreign

assistance.gov and just scroll around

like 3.7 billion dollars allocated for

Afghanistan I expect after the Taliban

have taken over that might change a

little bit so we'll see Ethiopia 1.2

billion dollars and you can see the

breakdown here the most goes towards

peace and security then health and

humanitarian assistance Economic

Development and so on and so forth these

things are of course used in trade

agreement negotiation as well so these

things can get very complicated worth

noting that 51 billion dollars of

foreign aid just represents three

percent of the 1.7 trillion dollar

spending in this bill kind of wild can

the wild okay let's go to the next one

this one got a lot of drama online this

one here says 1.5 billion dollars for

Border management requirements of the

U.S Customs and Border Protection Agency

so basically 1.5 billion dollars for

border patrol but wait a minute here it

says to acquire maintain or extend

border security Technologies and

capabilities except for technology and

capabilities to improve border patrol

processing so people get really confused

by this uh this is because the way

Congress divide thing divides things can

be a little confusing if you go like 60

Pages earlier in the bill you could

actually see a separate 230 million

dollars specifically for those types of

Technologies so just worth kind of

showing that sometimes these things get

taken out of context but what doesn't

get taken out of context is the fact

that the vaccine injury Compensation

Program trust fund is getting a 15 boost

to its trust fund and it is going up to

15.2 million dollars keep in mind the

New York Times just ran a front page

story about how fewer older folks are

actually getting their covet boosters

although I don't think anybody's really

surprised by that

we've got over here uh 524 million

dollars going to minority health and

health disparities research

then we have on the next page right here

we've got

300 million dollars that should be

available for the purchases of vaccines

antivirals and medical supplies for the

flu total of 335 million just for the

flu we also have

535 million dollars going to the

corporation of public broadcasters those

are like organizations that put together

NPR National Public Radio

we have over here this is a one that got

a little bit of attention online

575 million dollars going basically to

areas uh under uh the guidance of the

United States leadership against HIV

AIDS tuberculosis and malaria acts which

in my opinion is going into areas

probably like really destitute in poor

areas in Africa but some folks read this

and and they see this as oh my gosh 575

million dollars is going towards Family

Planning and reproductive Health what

kind of agenda is this going to I

personally believe it's probably going

to areas where population growth could

could impact uh not only the environment

but but potentially lead to more poverty

or like things like incest right so it's

really just more of a breakdown of

foreign aid in my opinion but it's

something that got a lot of attention

online

here's another one we have 200 million

dollars may be available for gender

equity and equality action fund with not

less than 50 million being available or

Des designated to increase leadership

opportunities for women in countries

where women and girls suffer

discrimination due to the law or policy

or otherwise

over here we have three million dollars

for carrying out the pollinator friendly

practices on roadsides and highways act

okay so this is basically saying I I

wrote a little note here that this has

to do like people are calling this three

million dollars for bees well to some

degree if we just look at the title it

is somewhat true it is also a matter of

trying to reduce irrigation at the sides

of Roads reducing mowing on the side of

Roads reducing the need to use

herbicides and pesticides on roads so

that way there are more natural flowers

on the side of roads which are

beneficial to bees but it's also

beneficial for less expenses on mowing

it's beneficial for less water costs

it's beneficial for the environment to

use less chemicals right so there's a

lot more to that and my expectation is

that three million dollars goes to sort

of research on the type of plants and

things like that and don't get me wrong

I'm not trying to like defend all the

provisions of of this bill I think it's

kind of crazy some of the wild things

that are in here and I bet you the vast

majority this lines people's pockets who

don't deserve it and a lot of it is

wasted I really believe that but uh at

least some of it probably has a good

intent I don't know I'm not endorsing it

I'm just trying to share it there's also

I guess a money going to designate a

certain Park the Ukrainian Independence

Park so you've got a lot of stuff going

in here but there you go there's a

little bit of look at the Omnibus

spending bill for 2022 that's going to

help us prevent a government shutdown

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