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I see this in a lot in my red town. There are a lot of infrastructure projects and they all say "project x funded by the republicans for initiative or whatever" and then you go to the website and in the fine print it says that initiative was itself funded with IRA money.
I really wasn't sure about the IRA at the time; I had big sticker shock at $5 trillion dollars. But seeing my middle-of-nowhere-in-particular town get big big projects funded with it has convinced me that this is landmark legislation that history will recognize as significant.
Now extend the northeast corridor to the rest of the country please! I want more passenger rail! I demand better train service!
You can vote against a bill and still be responsible for specific portions of it or how it gets distributed. You fight for your state and district to get their pork even if you disagree with slaughtering the pig.
Which is how Florida gets the second largest share of FEMA support (after Texas), despite its leaders voting against expanding FEMA's funding. It's as if they want to deprive others of the same kind of help they themselves benefit from.
That's silly. They don't want anyone to get it. It's their money as much as it is ours, so of course the reps should be fighting for their districts even if they hope the bill fails.
My issue isn't that people are dolling out the money they got. The problem is that they are telling anyone who will listen that they alone did this when in reality they are ideologically opposed to the money and the tiniest bit of investigation reveals that not only do they hate the money, they also voted against it. You can't claim a policy as your own accomplishment if you tried to tank it.
It's weird, but kind of accurate a lot of times. If they negotiate for an earmark or project, they did technically bring the money in - even if it's something they would prefer not to have passed.
I've certainly been in similar situations at work where we all agree something is stupid, but make sure to get something out of it.