{"id":17855,"date":"2022-12-21T23:12:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T04:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=17855"},"modified":"2022-12-21T23:12:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T04:12:07","slug":"new-york-post-omnibus-leaves-no-boondoggle-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/21\/new-york-post-omnibus-leaves-no-boondoggle-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Post: Omnibus Leaves No Boondoggle Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>New York Post, December 21, 2022<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/21\/taxpayers-feel-pain-of-pols-wasteful-rubber-stomp\/\">Taxpayers feel the pain of politicians\u2019 wasteful and absurd $1.7 trillion spending plan<\/a><br \/>\nBy James Bovard<\/h2>\n<p>Congress\u00a0will soon <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/21\/whats-in-the-1-7-trillion-spending-bill-congress-wants-to-pass-this-week\/\">vote on the 4,155-page omnibus bill<\/a> that was crafted in a back room by half a dozen congressional leaders. No amendments will be permitted on the House or Senate floors and members of Congress will get no time to read the bill before rubber-stamping $1.7 trillion-plus in new spending.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few gems from this \u201cNo Boondoggle Left Behind\u201d blunderbuss:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>*\u201cMonuments to Me\u201d in the bill commemorate politicians\u2019 generosity with other people\u2019s money \u2014 including the \u201cSpeaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building\u201d in San Francisco and the \u201cNancy Pelosi Fellowship Program\u201d for the State Department. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) finagled his name onto the Patrick Leahy Lake Champlain Basin Program. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) also got his name on an FBI training facility even though \u201calmost everything in Alabama is already named after him,\u201d according to Scott Parkinson of the Club for Growth<\/li>\n<li>*$3.6 million for the Michelle Obama Trail in DeKalb, Ga. Perhaps the four-mile trail will be a consolation prize for Michelle after her signature \u201cLet\u2019s Move\u201d campaign dismally failed to end childhood obesity.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>* The omnibus bill authorizes a chauffeur for the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. But there is no relief for taxpayers who get run over by IRS agents racing to meet quotas for seizing citizens\u2019 paychecks and bank accounts.<\/li>\n<li>* The bill includes an earmark of $2 million for the office of New York City Mayor Eric Adams \u201cfor improving coordination between social agencies to support children and families.\u201d Is a federal bribe necessary for local government agencies to exchange emails?<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* $200 billion is budgeted for the Gender Equity and Equality Action Fund, part of President Biden\u2019s glorious worldwide crusade for the rights of females. Will that program include sending condolence cards to the women of Afghanistan? Or maybe all the money will be fizzled for zany projects like \u201cWomen\u2019s Economic Empowerment through Gender Sensitive Value Chain \u00adInterventions\u201d in Albania.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The bill grants Food and Drug Administration agents sweeping new power over cosmetics. How long until the FDA causes shortages of lipstick and mascara like it did with infant formula?<\/li>\n<li>The bill provides massive subsidies to encourage the continuing tidal wave of illegal immigration while banning spending any funds \u201cto construct border fencing in certain areas,\u201d according to the Heritage Foundation. While scoffing at safeguarding the US border, Congress is sending $410 million for \u201cenhanced border security\u201d to Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia and Oman, according to Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC).<\/li>\n<li>$7.5 million is authorized for \u201cresearch targeted toward developing a better understanding of the domestic radicalization phenomenon, and advancing evidence-based strategies for effective intervention and prevention.\u201d The feds will \u201cresearch radicalization\u201d in lieu of ceasing to rile up people by trampling the Constitution.<\/li>\n<li>Congress is dolloping out $1.5 million for the COVID-19 American History Project. That program is more likely to have rows of Anthony Fauci Bobbleheads than to include the sordid details of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health browbeating Twitter to censor critics who exposed the deceits of federal policymakers.<\/li>\n<li>To fill the fearmongering void caused by Fauci\u2019s retirement, the omnibus bill creates a new White House pandemic czar.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) aptly describes the omnibus bill as \u201can act of legislative barbarism.\u201d \u00adUnfortunately, such barbarism is standard procedure inside the Beltway. The omnibus debacle is another step toward turning taxpayers into nothing more than beasts of burden for grandstanding politicians.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Post, December 21, 2022 Taxpayers feel the pain of politicians\u2019 wasteful and absurd $1.7 trillion spending plan By James Bovard Congress\u00a0will soon vote on the 4,155-page omnibus bill that was crafted in a back room by half a dozen congressional leaders. 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