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[–] 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

“If it was my choice, I wouldn’t put any of that money into the arch,” Simpson added, when pressed on whether Pentagon funding should be used at all.

He's a Senator Member of Congress, he is supposed to have 1/100 of a choice in the matter.

But he knows it will never come to having to make a choice like that, because Trump's just gonna do it, and he's gonna let him.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    He's a Representative, but he's one of the chairs for a subcommittee on the Appropriations Committee, which apparently has 61-63 members?

    So even though he's a rep, so he's one of 435, he happens to be in a rather powerful section of that group, meaning he probably has more influence than just 1 of 100 Senators.

    But yeah when these people act like they are just another yokel in a sea of millions, that is wild.

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  • Like Trump needs appropriations. He'll just steal money from something else like he always does.

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