On Thursday, Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee revealed that the Department of Defense is attempting to divert billions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health to supplement the Pentagon budget issues caused by President Donald Trump's war with Iran. This is according to a report in which ranking member Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) revealed the effort, which has been undertaken "without notifying Congress."
According to the report, "DoD has signed an interagency agreement that could give the Department access to billions of dollars that Congress provided to NIH for critical biomedical research. These funds were provided to support research to develop treatments or cures for infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Ebola, and other dangerous pathogens." Trump-appointed officials at NIH disclosed the scheme only after being pressed for information by House Appropriations Committee Democrats.
They could take the money that's being spent on Trump's stupid projects in DC and give them to Whiskey Pete for Trump's stupid war.
If the Dems take the House, let alone the Congress, this time around, the investigations that'll start in January will be epic.
And they should be,
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Lets hope if they get the majority they don't wishy-washy along like in 2021. "We impeached the outgoing president and lost the conviction. Our work is done here. Back to just complaining."
That’s a problem with many of the gutless wonders in the csucus.
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