Citizens Against Government Waste reports the $122 billion war spending bill has $21 billion in pork to buy the votes of reluctant congressional members. Funding the troop deployments apparently requires some $283 million for the Milk Income Loss Contract Program; $74 million for peanut storage costs; $60.4 million for salmon fisheries; $50 million for asbestos mitigation at the U.S. Capitol Plant; and $25 million for spinach growers, etc.
In the Senate version are $24 million for sugar beet producers; $20 million for reimbursements to Nevada for "insect damage"; $3.5 million for guided tours of the Capitol and $3 million for sugar cane.
No funds for "draining the swamp" yet.
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