50 Projects Taxpayers Pay For In A 1.7 TRILLION Omnibus Bill 2022

Here is who supported the passing of the Omnibus Bill. 

The Bill is more than 4000 pages long and you can read it here.

In the Senate, 18 Republicans voted to pass the omnibus. They were Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sens. Richard Shelby (R-AL), Roy Blunt (R-MO), John Boozman (R-AR), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Susan Collins (R-ME), John Cornyn (R-TX), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rob Portman (R-OH), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Mike Rounds (R-SD), John Thune (R-SD), Roger Wicker (R-MS), and Todd Young (R-IN).

The House Republicans who voted for the omnibus are Reps. John Katko (R-NY), Chris Jacobs (R-NY), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Fred Upton (R-MI), Rodney Davis (R-IL), Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA), Steve Womack (R-AR), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), and Liz Cheney (R-WY). Upton, Davis, Herrera Beutler, Kinzinger, Katko, and Cheney are not returning to Congress in January, and this was their last vote as lawmakers.

Ocasio-Cortez was the only Democrat to vote no on the Bill.

In a floor speech ahead of last Friday’s vote, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called the spending bill “a monstrosity,” adding “that is one of the most shameful acts I’ve ever seen in his body.”

Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky released his now 10^th year annual Festivus Report highlighting $482,276,543,907 of waste of taxpayer’s money. Here is what taxpayers are on the hook for:

1. Funding for Ukraine’s Protection (48 Billion), Bringing Total To Taxpayers (100 BILLION)
2. Funding for United States Border Protection (1.5 Million)
3. National Institute of Health steroid-induced hamster fight club (3M)
4. National Institute of Health on injecting puppies with cocaine(2.3M)
5. HHS study of the romantic patterns of parrots ($689,222)
6. Pentagon DOD purchases of expresso machines ($200,000)
7. Construction of a luxury hotel and spa in Broward County, Florida (140M)
8. Wisconsin School upgraded turf fields(1.6M)
9. National Institute of Health for mice to binge drink(1M)
10. Census Bureau on Super Bowl Ads (2.5M)
11. USAID on Basic Education in Jordan (210M)
12. SBA gave improper Covid 19 Economic Injury Disaster Loans (4.5B)
13. NFS compares ant and human brain development ($675,000)
14. Purchase of luxury cars from Covid Relief Funds(31.5M)
15. National Institute of Health on encouraging Ethiopians to wear shoes(2.1M)
16. Department of Defense on camouflage you can see(28M)
17. A study to determine whether pets help kids cope ($187,000)
18. A study to determine if a metal replica of a robot could snap its fingers ($118,000)
19. A Michelle Obama Trail in Georgia(3.6M)
20. Antiracist training from the Equity Institute ($477,000)
21. LGBTQ Museum in NY City (3M)
22. Funding research targeting domestic radicalization phenomenon (7.5M)
23. Funding for preparation of influenza pandemic (335M)
24. Funding research for root causes of school violence (1M)
25. Funding research for gun violence prevention (1M)
26. Funding for payment to Corporation for Public Broadcasting(535M)
27. Additional FBI Funding (11.33 Billion)
28. Additional ATF Funding (1.75B)
29. Funding For US Attorneys Prosecuting J6 Participants And Domestic Terrorists (2.63B)
30. House of Representatives Office On Diversity And Inclusion (26M)
31. Increased Funding For Planned Parenthood (286M)
32. Funding for minority business development (70M)
33. Funding for improvement/maintenance Iditarod Trail (2.35M)
34. Funding for the Racial Justice Improvement Project (400K)
35. Funding for the TransLatin Coalition, Transgender Latin Group(750K)
36. Funding for FBI Building Headquarters, Named After Senator Shelby (375M)
37. Funding for a Federal building in San Francisco named after Nancy Pelosi (2M)
38. Funding for Environmental Protection Agency in increased (10.1B)
39. Funding for government land acquisition activities (900M)
40. Funding for Shared Equity Housing Models (Idea From WEF, 4M)
41. Funding for Pentagon “Gender Advisor Programs” (8.6M)
42. Funding for Hotel Vouchers In Los Angeles ($982,000)
43. Bill Allocates 47 Billion to Ukraine,
44. Funding for salmon reintroduction (5M)
45. Funding for democracy program in Venezuela (50M)
46. Funding for democracy program in Nicaragua (15M)
47. Funding for the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in New York City ($27,640M)
48. Funding for a “recommendation for alcohol” in 2025 Dietary Guidelines(1.3M)
49. Funding for Pakistani Gender Program (200M)
50. Funding for membership in global multilateral organization, including UN(1.4Billion)

When will Congress stop passing Bills thousands of pages long that they never fully read? Yet a handful of Congressional Leaders and assistants prepared this Bill for taxpayers.

What do you think? Tell us what else you find in the Bill below.