Coronavirus bill LOADED with Pelosi’s expensive ‘Christmas-tree ornaments,’ says lawmaker

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Coronavirus bill LOADED with Pelosi’s expensive ‘Christmas-tree ornaments,’ says lawmaker
March 7, 2020 | Vivek Saxena

Two Republicans, Reps. Andy Biggs and Ken Buck, voted Friday against an $8.3 billion coronavirus emergency funding bill. Speaking later that evening on Fox News, Buck defended his “no” vote by calling attention to all the pork contained in the bill.

“The president asked for $2.5 billion,” he said. “I would have supported that. The speaker decided to add all sorts of Christmas tree ornaments to this bill. It was unnecessary. It was too much money. And we never had a hearing to discuss it.”

Was he right? It depends on what you consider to be pork. A review of the bill shows that it contains oodles of potentially questionable funding.

For instance, the bill includes funding for the following foreign (not domestic) projects:

    $264 million for “Diplomatic Programs”
    $435 million for “Global Health Programs”
    $300 million for “International Disaster Assistance”
    $250 million for the “Economic Support Fund”
    $100 million for “Worldwide Security Protection”

None of this foreign funding was requested by the administration. President Donald Trump had requested $2.5 billion to be distributed to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as the National Institutes of Health.

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