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Lauren Boebert claims Trump’s veto of safe drinking water bill is retaliation
(www.theguardian.com)
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Override the veto? A unanimously passed bill should be able to do that, and push back at the admin, win win
They probably have to worry about the credible death threats that Taco will direct at them. The Republican Party is not so much a political party but more like a crime family or a terrorist group.
The last article I read didn’t even mention the possibility which I couldn’t understand; at least this one does:
I can only assume republicans wouldn’t because they didn’t know they weren’t in step with Trump’s wishes?
It’ll be interesting to see how it goes and how willing Congress is to separate themselves from such an unpopular president.
With Trump officially opposed, I assume that Mike Johnson will prevent an override from coming to a vote. That will be fun to watch.
It's kind of shocking to learn that there are places in the United States where radioactive tap water is a thing.
3/4 of the US outside major metros should be classified as a developing country. We have many areas that barely have functional plumbing, let alone any other type of developed infrastructure.
The Navajo nation in New Mexico just got widespread electricity in the last 20 years. In other parts of the country, Natives still live without power.
A lot of people don't have any idea how desperate life is for the poorest in this country.
Which is even worse when you know that most of these places were doing pretty solid up until the 1970s-1980s, they've spent 50 to 40 fucking years slowly decaying while the feds and to an extent the states sat on their assess doing nothing. Fun act did you know that The Learning Channel has its roots in Appalachia as a way of educating the masses there. Sure some of them got fucked over by simple inevitably factors like the collapse of the logging industry up in NorCal, but others were fucked over by bad government policies that empowered corporations and fucked over smaller co-ops, independent farms, and small corporate farms.
Considering what The Learning Channel turned into, that's a perfect microcosm of the sort of shit that's happened to them over the last few decades.
I’m in my 30s and I, briefly, lived in a house with no running water some years ago. I agree that most people don’t realize how far behind the rural areas are.
I've been wondering about that myself.