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US government priorities (lemmygrad.ml)
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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Federal rental assistance programs provided states with $48.5 billion in 2020.

The federal government spent $90 billion on housing assistance 2021.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The US military budget is $842 billion. The 2008 bailouts cost $700 billion. Corporate profits in the US are $2.7 TRILLION per year. You're talking chump change. Do better.