I just want to point out....
The amount of money the United States has spent on war in the last 67 days, is roughly the same cost that Bernie Sanders proposed for universal college. So the real question is never can we afford it, it's what we choose to prioritize.
"Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?" - @CostaSamaras
Trump said today: "The Pope made a statement. He says, Iran can have a nuclear weapon."
Never happened, as @KaitlanCollins told Trump. In reality, the Pope has unequivocally denounced nuclear weapons and called for the whole world to relinquish them: https://t.co/Dtai7VLQ3Z
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration is finally admitting the price tag of ICE and deportations… but not the cause.
“It costs $18,225 per deportation.”
Multiply that by millions… yeah, it is staggering.
But, here’s what they aren’t saying…
It’s expensive because they made it that way.
They underfund the courts, fired a hundred+ of immigration judges… then complain the courts are “clogged.”
They restrict legal pathways… then blame asylum seekers for using the only ones left.
They drag cases out for years… then act shocked when attorneys are involved.
And they’re locking people in detention facilities when they don’t need to be… adding thousands in costs per person…
Because those facilities are run by private contractors… getting paid per bed, per day.
So, the longer people are detained… the more money gets made, and the more it costs per deportation.
But now, suddenly it’s the system’s fault?
No… it’s the design.
Break the system… bottleneck it… monetize the suffering… Then point to the price tag and say, “Look how broken this is.”
They created the cost. Now they’re using it as an excuse to remove due process.
Iran Deal by Obama:
•0 Americans killed
•0 Iranians killed
•0 bombs dropped
•$0 spent on war
GOP: THIS IS AN TOTAL FAILURE! WE LOST!
Iran Ceasefire by Trump:
•15 American soldiers killed, ~700 injured
•1900 Iranian civilians killed, 26,000 injured
•$45 BILLION in taxpayer money wasted
•18 countries bombed or involved in war
MAGA: THIS IS A TOTAL WIN! SO MUCH WINNING!
There it is!! Trump says us peasants aren’t worthy of childcare or healthcare because he’s too busy fighting wars to make his buddies in the oil and gas industry more money. This guy doesn’t give a rats ass about the American people. Stay angry my friends.