10. $2,587 for official “Chuck Schumer portrait“ lunch boxes for each member of the US Senate
9. $467,000 to purchase luxury coaches from Willie Nelson, Garth Brooks and Billy Joel, in order to transport migrants in a non-threatening, non-judgmental mode.
8. $43,682 (added to the Medicare budget), to cover a “tune up” for the President’s hair-plugs.
7. $11.2 million for multilingual tourist guidebooks for New York, Washington, D.C. and Martha’s Vineyard.
6. $900 million to hire IRS agents, whose audits will be focused on family-run dry cleaners in municipalities with fewer than 75,000 residents
5. $51 million for training and sidearms for those IRS agents…..
- $4 million to hire 6 White House caregivers for an “unspecified person“ and 2 English translators for an “unspecified person“ in the Vice President’s residence.
3. (Requested by Transportation Secretary Buttigieg) $ 2.3 million for a study to determine the level of racism caused by the Interstate Highway System.
2. $43.2 million to hire staff for the newly created office of the “Assistant Secretary of State for Plant and Animal Protection.”
…and the NUMBER ONE LESSER-KNOWN RIDERS ATTACHED to this WEEK’S RESOLUTION THAT KEEPS the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RUNNING is…
1. $52 million for a new, second “Gulfstream” private jet, so that John Kerry will never feel forced to fly to ”climate” meetings with staff or servants.
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