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Sen Cardin (D-MD): Cutting State Dept. budget is a Ponzi Scheme
Posted on 3/10/17 at 4:24 pm
Posted on 3/10/17 at 4:24 pm
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"To claim that one is strengthening national security while at the same time cutting the budget for front-line national security departments is nothing but a Ponzi scheme, one certain to fail and at great cost to the American people," Cardin wrote in the letter, which was obtained by The Hill.
He added that "to say I am deeply concerned ... is a gross understatement."
The Trump administration is expected to send its budget proposal to Congress on Thursday. Lawmakers, starting with the House and Senate Budget committees, will then put out and pass their own budget.
Cardin, in his letter, outlines more than a dozen funding requests he wants the committee to include in its budget, including that the so-called "150 fund" be at no less than $60 billion and funding for UN-related accounts be at a minimum of $5.75 billion
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Posted on 3/10/17 at 4:25 pm to joshnorris14
Seems more like false economy than a Ponzi scheme
Posted on 3/10/17 at 4:25 pm to joshnorris14
Fake president
Posted on 3/10/17 at 4:26 pm to joshnorris14
Posted on 3/10/17 at 4:28 pm to joshnorris14
UN related accounts at 5.75 billion...
This post was edited on 3/10/17 at 4:29 pm
Posted on 3/10/17 at 4:30 pm to joshnorris14
A reasonable (if not necessarily true) argument can be made that cutting the State Department budget can be detrimental to national security, but the argument tends to look less compelling when one uses a completely irrelevant term to describe it. Good job Senator Cardin.
Posted on 3/10/17 at 4:33 pm to joshnorris14
As fricking backwards as Louisiana is, it is amazing how just like herr, in DC, spending on programs is so sacrosanct and cannot be touched.
Posted on 3/10/17 at 4:47 pm to joshnorris14
All the senior State Department staff, some of whom have served since the 1970's, have been fired. Those folks are non-political. No deputy for Tillerson has been named.
Thursday the Mexican Foreign Minister (their version of Secretary of State) visited Washington. He did not meet with Tillerson nor any other person from the State Department.
Unware? Really???
Story
Thursday the Mexican Foreign Minister (their version of Secretary of State) visited Washington. He did not meet with Tillerson nor any other person from the State Department.
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. . . the State Department’s acting spokesman Mark Toner said, that he was “unaware” that the Mexican foreign minister Luis Videgaray was in Washington, D.C., for discussions. Videgaray, instead, met with White House officials, and it appears he might not have given his counterpart Tillerson a buzz to let him know he was in town — a departure from the usual protocol. “And I’m not sure — I can’t speak to whether there’s going to be any meetings at the State Department at any level,” Toner added, when asked if Videgaray would meet with agency officials.
Unware? Really???
Story
Posted on 3/10/17 at 4:48 pm to joshnorris14
Did Sen Cardin send a letter like this one regarding Social Security? Cause that is the biggest ponzi scheme ever conceived.
Posted on 3/10/17 at 4:53 pm to joshnorris14
Well I'm sure that this guy labeling it a Ponzi scheme will be just the thing to get Trump to change his mind.
These people are nuts.
These people are nuts.
Posted on 3/10/17 at 5:16 pm to BigAppleBucky
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Unware? Really???
So the dumbass doesn't tell Tillerson he is in town and that is Tillerson's fault?
What's he supposed to do, use flight tracker like CFB nerds tracking coaching candidates?
Posted on 3/10/17 at 6:59 pm to BigAppleBucky
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that the Mexican foreign minister Luis Videgaray
You mean from the country that is spending $50M to undermine our deportation process? I don't think they are a priority to State at the moment
And not meeting with them sent that signal
Posted on 3/10/17 at 8:34 pm to joshnorris14
That moment where you throw out a word that sounds good and think it makes you look smart only to use it completely out of context
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