Highlights: The White House on Monday issued veto threats against two GOP-led House appropriations bills expected to come up for a vote this week as lawmakers seek to avoid a government shutdown in November.
The House bills would cut Department of Transportation funding by $7 billion compared to fiscal 2023 levels, $1.2 billion from HUD funding compared to 2023 levels, and nearly $4 billion from EPA funding compared to 2023 levels.
In both cases, the White House argued the bills put forward by Republicans in the House undercut an agreement reached by administration officials and GOP lawmakers in May on spending as part of negotiations to raise the debt limit.
Why not cut Homeland Security and DOD spending? There is so much bloat there.
Of course, any representative to bring that up would instantly be called unpatriotic.
same reason why TSA is not cut …
if anything happens after … it will be political suicide
So we might as well just keep shoveling money into the bottomless pit that is the MIC…
The equivalent to a parent never letting their kids do anything because something might happen.