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December 20, 2024

13 Most Surprising Things in the New Spending Bill

$120 billion for the “Big Guy”: One last time for old time’s sake.

Ostensibly designed to merely keep the government open until March, suspicions arose that the new spending bill may have a few things added after it clocked in at 1,500 pages and $1.2 trillion. The Bee has reviewed the bill line by line, uncovering the following thirteen shocking items:

  1. $5 billion for construction of tiny racquetball courts for midgets: Feels a touch superfluous.

  2. $500 million to construct a new shell for Mitch McConnell: Poor little fella.

  3. $10 billion to put more drones over New Jersey: Wait a minute…

  4. Standing permission for Mike Johnson to stay out with his friends past 9 p.m. and he can no longer be grounded by his mother: Oddly specific.

  5. $700 million for a lab to study what happens if you make the coronavirus more transmissible and deadly: Smart.

  6. $70 billion for literal pork: Barrels of pork, far as the eye can see.

  7. $370 million to study the effects of climate change on gender fluid salamanders that have chicken wings surgically attached: Mission critical.

  8. $10 million to replace all artwork in Capitol Rotunda with paintings by famed artist Hunter Biden: What a bargain.

  9. $200 million for a new face for Nancy Pelosi: Those eyebrows aren’t going to raise themselves.

  10. $50 billion for “gay stuff”: They didn’t specify, and we didn’t ask.

  11. $9 billion for the rights to the Nickelback song “Photograph”: Really feel like we got hosed on this one.

  12. $3 billion for a second electric mail delivery van: You’re welcome, Mother Earth.

  13. $120 billion for the “Big Guy”: One last time for old time’s sake.

Wow, it sure takes a lot to keep the government running at a bare minimum for three months. Thank you, Congress.

From our friends at The Babylon Bee.

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