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angka

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Sat Mar 26, 2022, 01:58 PM Mar 2022

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert touts funding wins she voted against [View all]

Source: Durango Herald

A newsletter distributed by U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s office this week touts “nine Boebert wins for Colorado,” but all nine items were included in a bill that the representative voted against earlier this month.

Boebert celebrated investments worth about $2.3 billion and measures such as preventing the use of federal money to pay for abortions, but several of the identified sums are distributed to localities on an annual basis or benefit national programs and initiatives...

The $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill containing the “nine Boebert wins” was signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 15. Boebert voted against it six days earlier. The spokesperson said that the omnibus bill, which wraps budget measures together with policy changes, contained “more bad than good” for Republicans, so Boebert voted against it.

Read more: https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/u-s-rep-lauren-boebert-touts-funding-wins-she-voted-against/

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