Post #2482687
2026-05-08 05:38 UTC
The same folks who were criminally investigating Jerome Powell for a $600M cost overrun on the new Fed headquarters are now telling us that the White House ballroom will cost taxpayers a billion dollars instead of being completely paid for by bribes.
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@martinvermeer@fediscience.org 2026-05-08 06:53
@Cdespinosa@mastodon.social And those bribes will also largely end up on same tax payers' cost-of-living bills. Like the tariff tax.
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@Deixis9@beige.party 2026-05-08 08:23
@Cdespinosa@mastodon.social In a just world there would be a way to use Trump’s illicit wealth to rebuild the White House. Not very capitalist, I know.
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@guardeddon@mas.to 2026-05-08 10:45
@Cdespinosa@mastodon.social So $1bn is the default rounded, base unit of everything now? New shoes for first lady - $2bn ($1bn each foot) New VC-25AB (bridge spec) - suspected to be $1bn