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Trump admin busted for astonishing $155M ‘funding pot’ diversion: report
The Earmark Was Never the PointA Pretext, Then a RerouteThe reported story is simple: Congress set aside $170 million to monitor alleged illegal Chinese fishing, and the Trump administration spent most of it somewhere else. About $155 million went to counter-drone technology for events like World Cup matches and America250 tributes, with smaller amounts shuffled to Coast Guard communications and a Merchant Marine credentialing system. That is the surface fact. The political fact is uglier: the money moved from one declared threat to a more convenient set of projects after the appropriation…
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