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2023-05-02 13:51:22 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 897B9441C9F4EFFA4E915FA7AE0C19B26D0C88C87A87F33E893E6AFA14775768
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A tactic in politics is to put a partisan issue into a non partisan bill and claim the opposition opposes the non partisan section. In the PACT act, the bill provided veterans benefits but also $400 billion in non veteran related spending. https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3967/text https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_spending_bill#:~:text=An%20omnibus%20spending%20bill%20is,in%20each%20house%20of%20Congress. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/31/politics/pact-act-burn-pits-legislation-cnntv/index.html
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