I follow US politics but not in depth since I have a life with other interests.
But I did check the debate about the latest bill on twitter, and I actually tweeted against the part that funded gain of function research (what was that doing in the bill?).
The MSM is lamenting that Musk stopped the bill, and that billionaires shouldn't boss Yanks around that way (except for Bezos, Zuckerburg and all the Soros funded NGOS).
I am old enough to remember when a similar huge bill was passed and Nancy Pelosi said we will have to pass it to find what is in it.
and this bill was originally 1400 pages long, so who had time to read the whole dang thing? It sounded like the regular kabuki politics: lots of pork hidden inside the bill and if you didn't vote for it you were killing kids or somethings else which was in the bill (while no one was talking about the pork or controversial parts in public because hey, who had time to read the dang thing when Congress was given 24 hours to vote for it, and the MSM didn't read it either or tell us what was in it).
Enter DOGE.
Uh, Vivek did read it: presumably with the help of AI. And then the questionable parts that had nothing to do with a budget were tweeted out by Musk and there was a twitterstorm and lots of folks who trusted Musk not to lie about what was in the bill contacted their congressperson.
Fast forward: I'm not sure of the details but here are the tweets: apparently they did pass a bill, and it did include disaster relief for the hurricane/flood victims of Appalachia.
🚨 #BREAKING: The third spending bill has PASSED the House of Representatives, with Democrat support
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 20, 2024
A government shutdown has been avoided.
This bill was 118 pages. Down from over 1,500 pages.
𝕏 may have cut the pork out of this bill, but now we must get to work cutting the… pic.twitter.com/kwNmjKVmGk
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