• dhork@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    “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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      21 hours ago

      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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        20 hours ago

        You’re right of course, thats what I get when shit posting too quickly and misreading “Senior” for “Senator”…