Scscsc89 Posted August 15, 2019 Author Share Posted August 15, 2019 ... instead of things the military had been planning to spend it on, like pay and pensions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAC MAN Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 2 hours ago, Scscsc89 said: ... instead of things the military had been planning to spend it on, like pay and pensions. ...which is no longer needed for the current fiscal year. With government accounting, you do not roll over the money to the next fiscal year unlike with your typical business. That money must be spent no questions asked and that is something that the typical person doesn't understand when it comes the difference between business and governmental accounting & budgeting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scscsc89 Posted August 15, 2019 Author Share Posted August 15, 2019 You’ve made the point twice, we get it. But unused funds are just a portion of trumps request for wall money. They are going to (try to) divert from other programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAC MAN Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 We'll have to see about it once Congress gets back from their August recess related to education & health. Hard to predict what could happen due to the coming impeachment proceedings and Trump himself. It could be argued that given the low unemployment rates (who knows with that eventual global recession) and perhaps a reduction in overall school enrollments as a result, not as much money is needed for colleges. Likewise with health care where employee health plans would be taking care of people instead of government run healthcare for unemployed people which would't need as much money as usual. Perhaps if $5B remains for those two things, Trump can always reprogram any leftover money towards the wall if allowed. At this time of the year, the government should be getting a better idea of how much money it could have reprogrammed towards other purposes. Sometimes that money ends up going to the Department of the Treasury which is responsible for paying down the nation's debt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KUGRDON Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 Hmmmmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 17 hours ago, KUGRDON said: Hmmmmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 Well this is nice. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/justice-department-immigration-judges-white-nationalist Quote An email sent from the Justice Department to all immigration court employees this week included a link to an article posted on a white nationalist website that “directly attacks sitting immigration judges with racial and ethnically tinged slurs,” according to a letter sent by an immigration judges union and obtained by BuzzFeed News. According to the National Association of Immigration Judges, the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) sent court employees a link to a blog post from VDare, a white nationalist website, in its morning news briefing earlier this week that included anti-Semitic attacks on judges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Scscsc89 Posted January 7, 2020 Author Share Posted January 7, 2020 Being a US citizen used to mean something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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