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minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 days ago unauditable US defence budget Crazy how that budget is just a black hole and nobody can do anything about it. Wish the legislature had some kind of oversight ability, or at least the power to control how money is spent.
minus-squarephutatorius@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 days agoThey have the power. They don’t want the responsibility of exercising it.
minus-squareNauticalNoodle@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 days agothe real crazy part is how congress keeps chucking increasingly larger amounts of money into said “black hole”
minus-squareJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 days agoA “power of the purse”, if you will. That would have been a good idea.
Crazy how that budget is just a black hole and nobody can do anything about it. Wish the legislature had some kind of oversight ability, or at least the power to control how money is spent.
They have the power. They don’t want the responsibility of exercising it.
the real crazy part is how congress keeps chucking increasingly larger amounts of money into said “black hole”
A “power of the purse”, if you will. That would have been a good idea.