The Staggering Amount of Pork in Democrats' COVID Relief Bill
By Dan O'Donnell
February 26, 2021
House Democrats have taken to heart Rahm Emanuel's advice to "never let a good crisis go to waste," as they have loaded their COVID-19 relief bill with a mountain of pork.
Twitter user @Oilfield_Rando outlined all of the wasteful spending in a must-read thread:
$300,000,000 for COVID animal surveillance as guided by the World Organization for Animal Health.
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 19, 2021
As godawful as the WHO is, can’t imagine what a derp fest these folks will be pic.twitter.com/aZ915EMhhr
A cool billion for outreach programs for the “socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers”.
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 19, 2021
If you wanna host some conferences to tell minority farmers how to overcome systemic racism, you’s about to get PAID pic.twitter.com/MbEatRUVIB
Another $128.5 BILLION for the teachers unions to play with while they refuse to reopen schools.
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 19, 2021
Add that to the $60 billion sitting untouched. Them playgrounds better look like Disneyworld pic.twitter.com/tAUgsqAMBf
$19.25 million for Gaullaudet
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 19, 2021
$35 million for Howard University
And $91 million for outreach to student loan borrowers, domestically AND INTERNATIONALLY? pic.twitter.com/GCjzTNItmT
$135,000,000 for the National Endowment for the Arts
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 19, 2021
$135,000,000 for the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Every. F**king. Time. With. This. pic.twitter.com/f9mCjJEshO
Welp there it is. Raising the federal minimum wage. You knew this bullshit was coming. pic.twitter.com/DdFuA1E2DZ
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 19, 2021
$150,000,000 for MSHA, OSHA, and all the other feds that come to your business to break your balls.
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 19, 2021
“Relief” Bill! pic.twitter.com/0kYRoAASOq
$15 billion Child Care and Development block grant. Wowza. pic.twitter.com/AooTVC5k9W
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 19, 2021
Another $852,000,000 for the Corporation for national and community service. How many hundreds of millions did they get in the last Bill? pic.twitter.com/LNMbVntjmk
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 19, 2021
$1,000,000,000 to tell people that the vaccine isn’t going to turn them into a lizard person.
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 19, 2021
Simply incredible. A straight up slush fund for PR firms pic.twitter.com/jyreu99e7q
Ugh thought I’d make it halfway through before I needed it but it’s time for bourbon. Think I’ll just pour it in my protein shake.
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 19, 2021
Oh wow. This is precious.
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 19, 2021
$100,000,000 for the EPA to address “health outcome disparities from pollution and the COVID pandemic”
Critical race theory is a plague that has infected absolutely everything pic.twitter.com/PmeiGCg3zi
$100,000,000 for rural housing assistance
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 19, 2021
$750,000,000 for Native American Housing assistance
🤔 pic.twitter.com/TYan746Cyg
Lmfao this behemoth has $40,000,000 allocated for just administrative costs. Amazeballs pic.twitter.com/zxEUQY8LFv
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 19, 2021
Another $1 billion for the same sh*t, right after. They’re just rubbing it in our faces. pic.twitter.com/QcvWhjhSId
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 19, 2021
Drum roll please, here comes the blue state bailout........
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 19, 2021
$219,800,000,000 for states that drove themselves into the ground with onerous lockdowns, ridiculous pension programs, and unjustifiable government salaries. pic.twitter.com/d4GAippbB2
The Government Accountability Office is getting $77 million to make sure all these slush funds and graft are ethically dispersed.
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 19, 2021
I feel way better now. pic.twitter.com/R9qI5OEfbj
It cracks me up that the Great Lakes St Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation makes it into all of these bills.
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 19, 2021
$1.5 million this time lol pic.twitter.com/5K870zsQg4
$30 billion for FTA grants.
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 19, 2021
THIRTY FRIKKING BILLION pic.twitter.com/bvJFTuT9Cw
$3 billion to bail out the airplane manufacturers.
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 19, 2021
Sweet, sweet union money that Democrats will get a piece of through campaign contributions.
What a system we have. pic.twitter.com/5dBqCXbRL4
STIMMY STIMMY BOOM BOOM, BIDEN CHECKS OF $1400!! pic.twitter.com/tPmYtl7zRN
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 19, 2021