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Commentary
As if on cue, President Joe Biden asked the lame-duck Congress for yet another $47.7 billion supplemental spending package just as representatives and senators returned to Washington after the midterm elections.
Lawmakers should reject Biden's spending binge.
The lame-duck period is when Congress is least accountable, taking place after the American people voted out the Democratic majority in the House in favor of a slim Republican majority. Defeated and retiring lawmakers should not be adding billions to the taxpayers' tab, particularly after their reckless spending sparked inflation at a level not seen in four decades.
This supplemental spending request for Ukraine aid and COVID-19 funding is more than an entire year's worth of regular appropriations for the departments of Agriculture and Interior combined....