• dan1101@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      And the mafia is in charge of the neighborhood and gets paid with protection money. Some mafiosos do wrong to other mafiosos and pay reparations from the protection money.

  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
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    Me, me, me, me is all I hear. He is this upset over this and vows to spend a lot of time reversing it as quickly as possible for something that affects 8 people, it says in the article. Yet fighting for American citizens’ healthcare doesn’t seem to phase him or any of them. Priorities, I guess.

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    Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., one of two Republicans who voted against the legislation, vented his frustrations with the process that led to the provision being included, and the fact that House Republicans were being asked to vote for the bill regardless.

    “That does nothing to change the fact that certain senators will get paid an additional $500k of taxpayer money. The Senate will never take up your ‘standalone’ bill,” he wrote on X in response to Johnson. “This is precisely why you shouldn’t let the Senate jam the House.”

    Ugh