• grue@lemmy.world
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    40 minutes ago

    The cynical might claim that they can afford to appear to respond to public pressure now, since the slush fund was already completed.

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      21 minutes ago

      More that congress operates on a go-along-to-get-along basis by default, and it takes some serious popular rage to change that