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Atman

(31,464 posts)
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 08:33 AM Aug 2017

Will GOP ask for 'offsets' to pay for Secret Service increase?

Can't afford money for anything without an offsetting cut somewhere else -- always hitting the poor and vulnerable. But I bet they have no problem coming up with cash for the USSS on the first vote.

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Will GOP ask for 'offsets' to pay for Secret Service increase? (Original Post) Atman Aug 2017 OP
They'll find money for the endless Afghanistan war, too Orrex Aug 2017 #1
Other than the pResident, they should pay their own protection costs..n/t monmouth4 Aug 2017 #2

Orrex

(63,203 posts)
1. They'll find money for the endless Afghanistan war, too
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 08:43 AM
Aug 2017

Sure, it'll come from Social Security, public assistance, and pensions, but they'll find it.

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