Wednesday, January 06, 2021

How $10 Million for Gender Programs in Pakistan Got Tied to a COVID Relief Bill - Foundation for Economic Education

How $10 Million for Gender Programs in Pakistan Got Tied to a COVID Relief Bill - Foundation for Economic Education
"...Hours before lawmakers voted on a multi-trillion dollar government funding package that included a $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill, congressional aides were spotted wheeling in the legislation.
It ran 5,593 pages.
“You’d have to read 560 pages an hour to finish it before midnight,” observed NBC News correspondent Garrett Haake.
“Among them are a pair of assistance programs in Pakistan, whereby $15 million will be put toward “democracy programs” and $10 million will be distributed to ‘gender programs,’” reports Fox News correspondent Brittany De Lea.
...while the Pakistani gender programs were not technically included in the COVID relief bill, the end result is much the same. 
US senators could not vote for COVID relief without voting for 
(The process in the House was a bit more complicated.)...Read all.

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