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TOP TEN LESSER-KNOWN RIDERS ATTACHED to this WEEK’S RESOLUTION THAT KEEPS the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RUNNING…

​10.​  $2,587 for official “Chuck Schumer portrait​“​ lunch boxes for each member of the US Senate

​  9.​  $​4​67,000 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 ​focus​ed ​on​ family-run dry cleaners in municipalities with fewer than 75,000 residents 

​  5.​   $51 million for training and sidearms for th​ose​ IRS agents…..​          

  1.  $4 million to hire 6 ​W​hite ​H​ouse caregivers for​ ​an ​“u​nspecified person​“​ and 2 English translators for an ​“u​nspecified 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 w​ill never​ ​feel​ forced to fly  to ​”​climate​”​ meetings​ ​with staff or servants.

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