{"id":2030201,"date":"2023-09-13T06:58:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T10:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theres-no-way-to-justify-continued-funding-for-the-federal-government\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T06:59:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T10:59:56","slug":"theres-no-way-to-justify-continued-funding-for-the-federal-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theres-no-way-to-justify-continued-funding-for-the-federal-government\/","title":{"rendered":"No justification for ongoing federal funding."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftheres-no-way-to-justify-continued-funding-for-the-federal-government%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2030201&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n    <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>What Did You Get Done This Week?<\/h2>\n<p>While we gleefully\u2062 await the federal\u200d government\u2019s\u2064 bankruptcy at the end of the month, here\u2019s my favorite <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TechEmails\/status\/1575598387335901190\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elon Musk quote<\/a>: \u201cWhat did you get done this week?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every Republican in Congress should have to answer that question to the American taxpayer (you \u2064and me)\u200c before even thinking about giving another cent to \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/24\/the-first-republican-debate-was-only-a-game-changer-for-the-delusional-media-desperately-hoping-for-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ukraine<\/a>, the Pentagon,\u200d the DOJ, Health and Human Services, and every other department that is, at best, \u2064useless, and at worst, packed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theres-no-way-to-justify-continued-funding-for-the-federal-government\/\" title=\"No justification for ongoing federal funding.\">paper pushers overtly harassing<\/a> the people who pay their outsized salaries (you and me).<\/p>\n<p>The Musk quote came in a strikingly similar context. In a text chat, some overpaid Twitter executive lectured him\u2062 about the \u201cinternal distraction\u201d that Musk\u2019s \u200cpublic comments about the company had made after he purchased \u2064a\u200b large portion \u200bof its shares. \u201cNext time we speak, I\u2019d like to provide \u200cyou \u200cperspective\u200d on the level of internal distraction right now and how\u200c it [sic] hurting our ability to do work,\u201d the executive said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did you get done this\u2063 week?\u201d Musk replied.<\/p>\n<p>What makes \u2064it so good is that\u2063 there is no answer to the question. Just some Twitter\u200c nerd \u2064versed only in talking about \u201coptimization\u201d (meaningless) and \u201ccompany culture\u201d (zero \u200bproductivity value) blankly staring in a freeze.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, plenty of \u200dRepublicans in Congress would have a\u200d lot to say should they be \u200dasked to justify their existence\u200d or a vote to \u2064spend more money.<\/p>\n<h3>Funding Ukraine is about defending democracy!<\/h3>\n<h3>Funding the \u200bPentagon is about supporting the military!<\/h3>\n<h3>Infrastructure!<\/h3>\n<h3>Border security!<\/h3>\n<p>Name exactly one thing there that has worked to Americans\u2019 advantage in the last three\u200c years.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/09\/23\/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-actions-and-funding-to-address-the-overdose-epidemic-and-support-recovery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a release<\/a> from the\u200c Biden White House a year ago: \u201cBiden-\u2060Harris Administration Announces New Actions and Funding\u200c to Address the Overdose Epidemic and Support Recovery.\u201d That valiant effort purportedly included $1.5\u200c billion \u201cfor all States and Territories to Address Addiction\u2062 and the Opioid\u2063 Crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now here\u2019s NPR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/05\/18\/1176830906\/overdose-death-2022-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eight months later<\/a>: \u201cDrug deaths nationwide hit a new\u2064 record in \u200d2022.\u2064 109,680 people \u2064died as the fentanyl crisis continued \u200bto deepen, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ecb-bets-boost-euro-dollar-loses-ground\/\" title=\"ECB bets boost euro, dollar loses ground\">preliminary data released<\/a> by the Centers for Disease Control\u2064 and Prevention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the return\u200b on \u2062investment there? A dead American for every $14,000 in tax dollars spent?<\/p>\n<p>White House: <em>Let\u2019s double that budget!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Biden is requesting \u200bjust \u2063another\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/08\/10\/biden-emergency-supplemental-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$24 \u200cbillion<\/a> in aid to Ukraine, which, of course, Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell is <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/09\/05\/senate-republicans-going-along-with-democrats-spending-wish-list-are-playing-right-into-bidens-hands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">crying happy tears<\/a> to have\u2064 approved as soon as yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re \u200dmarching into\u2063 the second year of footing the bill for this war, having\u200c committed many billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine. In \u200dthat time, according to even The New York Times (Ukraine\u2019s \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/21\/3-corporate-media-shticks-about-ukraine-that-you-should-absolutely-ignore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tried and true<\/a> relayer of state propaganda),\u200c Russia has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/world\/europe\/ukraine-maps.html?action=click&#038;module=RelatedLinks&#038;pgtype=Article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">managed\u200b to occupy<\/a> tens\u2064 of\u200c thousands of square miles of Ukraine territory, while simultaneously ingratiating itself to critical U.S. adversaries \u2063China and North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Such maneuvers were previously known as \u201cthe beginnings of a world war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Members of Biden\u2019s own party are\u200d dogging\u2062 his <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/09\/09\/new-york-times-eric-adams-is-a-democrat-so-its-no-longer-hateful-to-oppose-uncontrolled-mass-migration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-border-policy-sparks-worry-over-impact-on-pandemic\/\" title=\"Biden border policy sparks worry over impact on pandemic\">open-border policies<\/a><\/a>. Health and Human Services <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/07\/its-far-too-late-for-the-experts-to-admit-that-science-is-gray\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">melted its own credibility<\/a> on \u201cscience,\u201d then recently flirted with recommending public masking again. The Justice Department is found out over and over \u200dagain to be hostile <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/23\/hunter-biden-is-above-the-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">toward the rule of \u200blaw<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/22\/fbi-knew-hunter-bidens-laptop-was-authentic-a-year-before-pressuring-big-tech-to-censor-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the \u2062will of the people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Which \u200cof\u2062 the seven heads on\u200d this monstrosity \u2063is even\u200c bothering to smile at me? \u2064Why would I care if the federal government is funded when it does nothing for\u200b me? What\u2019s worse, it functions in ways that make clear it deeply resents me.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me, \u2062Republicans. What did you\u2063 get done this week?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we eagerly anticipate the federal government&#8217;s bankruptcy, here&#8217;s Elon Musk&#8217;s quote: &#8220;What did you achieve this week?&#8221; Every Republican in Congress must answer this to the American taxpayer before considering funding Ukraine or the Pentagon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2030202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}