CT Blue

I have been voted out of every elective office here in the Town of Groton, which means I have also held each elective office, so I became familiar with the budget process. So this sounded familiar:

The leadership of the Congressional Progressive Caucus voiced opposition to President Joe Biden’s $813 billion military budget request on Monday and lamented that the question so often asked of critical social spending measures—”how will we pay for it?”—is never applied to soaring Pentagon outlays.

The town doesn’t have an army, but it does have a police force, and the same rule applied. The budgets for essential services always take a hit, but whatever the cops propose they get, no questions asked.