"I urge Congress to come together and swiftly pass this bipartisan agreement," President Joe Biden said, also praising the migration measures in the bill, which took months to negotiate.

However, House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson declared it "dead on arrival" if it reaches his chamber.

the bill includes a provision barring its funds from going to the U.N. agency for Palestinians, UNRWA.

  • WithoutFurtherBelay
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    9 months ago

    You could end world hunger for a hundred years or more for that amount of money. You could obliterate entire illnesses from the face of the earth. You could give expansive homes to every human being on Earth. This is the US dollar too, a famously high value bill (propped up by imperialism and death of course but my point still stands). And we are using to to kill people??

    Edit: We could strip mine asteroids for that much money and start building a Dyson sphere. Almost every silicone valley hallucination ever conceived could be made a reality.

    Edit 2: This amount of funding makes it hard for me to believe we aren’t approaching WW3, though that still seems unlikely

    Edit 3: I mildly overestimated… heavily overestimated the buying power of that much money. Jesus Christ what is happening with inflation. I’m pretty sure the illnesses one is true though. They could delete Covid with that much money.

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      frothingfash: "No bro, you don't understand. When my tax money goes to war, that's gender-affirming care for us cis men. I get to feel like a big macho macho man by proxy!"

      • WithoutFurtherBelay
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        9 months ago

        So cis men simply have the most inordinately expensive form of gender affirming care? Trans people stay winning

    • hglman@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      I really agree that we are going to move into some ww3 kind of situation. I just doubt true global hot war is possible but some kind of proxy on proxy on proxy thing.