There sure are a lot of those back door options in this bill. Kind of reminds me of the old ‘other duties as assigned’ job descriptions.
Many places where money can be used for other reasons, no questions, no accountability, just ‘spend it while you got it in the coffers’ budgeting style. 👀
I was looking for those bonuses, too. I see in Ellie’s review of Sec 7 Immigration, there is this: “70102 - RETENTION AND SIGNING BONUSES FOR U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL
In addition to already-appropriated funds, an additional $858,000,000 will be given in the form of $10,000 hiring and retention bonuses for ICE personnel.”
Does this mean the bonuses were reduced from $42k per agent to $10k? 🤷♀️ It’s still disgusting, regardless of the amount.
I try to read through your excellent reports but it it’s SO DEPRESSING that they are adding stupid fees- $350 to view a website - and cancelling funding without any idea of how it will affect people.
Cutting everything possible and putting piles of money where it can be argued we need it, but with the ability to move it to “similar purchases.” How much you want to bet a lot is planned for deportation and “remigration?” This bill is an abomination, though not for reasons Musk labeled it as such (he wasn’t getting as many billions from it as he wanted).
A trickle remains for the common good while most redirects money to billionaires (on top of their six figure tax cuts) while exploding our deficit. 🙄
I am so shocked at all these amendments like you said no questions no accountability just slip it through
Ellie,
Thank you for taking the considerable amount of time to read and summarize this Murder Bill.
Thank you for reading! I’m racing through to see if I can get it all out the door before the vote
How many more sections do you have left to go?
This is an excellent breakdown, thank you so much for what is clearly a LOT of hard work. I appreciate you.
Appreciate you too ;)
There sure are a lot of those back door options in this bill. Kind of reminds me of the old ‘other duties as assigned’ job descriptions.
Many places where money can be used for other reasons, no questions, no accountability, just ‘spend it while you got it in the coffers’ budgeting style. 👀
This isn’t a budget - it’s a Doctrine! Privatize the gain. Socialize the pain.
I didn’t see the 5 million bonus to ICE employees. I’m sure that hasn’t gone away. Gotta give the goons a bonus for not following law!
I was looking for those bonuses, too. I see in Ellie’s review of Sec 7 Immigration, there is this: “70102 - RETENTION AND SIGNING BONUSES FOR U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL
In addition to already-appropriated funds, an additional $858,000,000 will be given in the form of $10,000 hiring and retention bonuses for ICE personnel.”
Does this mean the bonuses were reduced from $42k per agent to $10k? 🤷♀️ It’s still disgusting, regardless of the amount.
Thank you for taking the time to show us what this horrible bill states!
I try to read through your excellent reports but it it’s SO DEPRESSING that they are adding stupid fees- $350 to view a website - and cancelling funding without any idea of how it will affect people.
Cutting everything possible and putting piles of money where it can be argued we need it, but with the ability to move it to “similar purchases.” How much you want to bet a lot is planned for deportation and “remigration?” This bill is an abomination, though not for reasons Musk labeled it as such (he wasn’t getting as many billions from it as he wanted).
A trickle remains for the common good while most redirects money to billionaires (on top of their six figure tax cuts) while exploding our deficit. 🙄