? Can you be more specific, please?
From 2020:
"Politicians just passed a stunning $2.3 trillion catch-all
spending bill, including $900 billion in COVID relief which they claimed was intended to help individual Americans and shore up small businesses.
But it also contains hundreds of millions of dollars in pork-barrel spending. So now your tax dollars will be given to foreign countries and spent on items like helping remind Americans not to store gasoline near an open flame, and gender diversity for statues.
Here's a small list of the pork that was added to the COVID relief bill's more than 5,000 pages:
- Water resources in Tibet. $1 million allocated for the next four years, $8 million per year for the next four years for Tibetan refugees, along with $4 million for the Tibetan government.
- Gender programs in Pakistan - $10 million allocated.
- Funding to address "gender inequality" among statutes.
- $193 million for HIV/AIDS workers so they can buy official vehicles and pay the insurance on those vehicles.
- Climate change is mentioned throughout the bill, which calls for the creation of a "Climate Security Advisory Council."
- Invasive Species. Congress allocated $130,000,000 for species assessment, mitigation and reductions.
The bill also creates a commission to educate "consumers about the dangers associated with using or storing portable fuel containers for flammable liquids near an open flame."
From the current multi trillion dollar monstrosity Biden is trying to pass:
https://spectator.org/infrastructure-bill-poison-pill/
"The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed in the United States Senate on Tuesday morning with a vote of 69-30. The $1.2 trillion spending package is a bipartisan alternative to President Joe Biden’s initial $2.7 trillion American Jobs Plan, and 19 Republicans in the Senate, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, voted in favor of it.
The
infrastructure bill does contain several hundred billion dollars worth of funding for the nation’s decaying roads, bridges, and railways, but it also contains frivolous regulations on pet projects of the American bureaucracy, leverages additional taxes on the American people, and pushes policies that undermine national sovereignty.
Politicians, primarily Democrats, at the national level have
redefined ‘infrastructure’ as anything that serves as a means to an end
The legislation
stipulates on page 1,066 that “to ensure the prevention of alcohol-impaired driving fatalities, advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology must be standard equipment in all new passenger motor vehicles.”
The bill
says on page 2,434 that “any person who (for consideration) is responsible for regularly providing any service effectuating transfers of digital assets on behalf of another person” is to report information about cryptocurrency transactions and file taxes as brokers on these assets.
There are provisions for pilot programs for taxing drivers PER MILE (meaning everyone will be tracked to ensure that he is paying his money per mile).
"Tree equity":
Agriculture Committee earmarked $3 billion to plant trees — but not just anywhere. Instead, the program promises “a priority for projects that increase tree equity.”
... the concept “identifies the cities that can gain the most significant health, economic and climate benefits by increasing tree canopy in places of high need.”
Bias training in health care (sorry, this is not infrastructure either): $25 million for “anti-discrimination and bias training” in
health care
79 Billion for tax enforcement - also not infrastructure.
We need STANDALONE bills in Congress such as are required by many states.
There is a
lot more that has zero to do with "infrastructure":
- To qualify for $39.6 billion in federal grants, a government school system must submit “a local facilities master plan to address the health, safety, education equity, enrollment diversity, environmental sustainability and climate resiliency of the public-school facilities operated by such agency.” (Page 55)
- This bill earmarks “Tuition assistance for Alaska native-serving institutions, Asian-American and Native-American Pacific Islander-serving institutions, Native American-serving nontribal institutions, native Hawaiian-serving institutions, and predominantly black institutions.” (Page 127) Irish need not apply.
- The $1 billion “Electric Vehicle Charging Equity Program” would “give priority to projects that . . . utilize or involve locally owned small and disadvantaged businesses, including women and minority-owned businesses.” (Page 465)
- BBBA mandates “promoting equity” in Medicaid’s home- and community-based services. (Page 575)
- $1 billion, in part to employ “faculty from racial and ethnic groups who are underrepresented among the medical and other health professions.” (Page 676)
- $175 million for maternal-health facilities that display “racial and ethnic disparities,” even if unrelated to racism. (Page 696)
- $100 million for “cybersecurity workforce development and education” at “minority-serving institutions and community colleges.” (Page 897)
- $750 million for research on family- and medical-leave benefits and disparities involving “race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, national origin, family composition, or living arrangements.” (Page 1,288)
- Pursuant to federal decree, employers must provide, “to the extent available,” information on the races, sexes, sexual orientations, gender identities, and other characteristics of paid-leave beneficiaries “for the purposes of promoting equity.” (Page 1,310)
ALL NOT INFRASTRUCTURE -
And the final one is horrifying. It is NONE of the government's business to know anything about personal characteristics of employees.