The wrangling over short-term spending bill offers some insight into why our elections have not made any difference over the last several decades. According to government funded Politico, the one sticking point in the bill is the Democrats want provisions forcing Trump to spend all of the money allocated. They do not go into details, but it sounds like the scheme is to prevent the freezes Trump has been using.
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