Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S

• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe you don’t remember, but before Trump, we didn’t accept presidential rule by decree

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  • darthelmet@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, except for small, unimportant things like sending people to another country to go kill people.

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  • Folstar@lemmus.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also incorrect. USDA has a great deal of discretionary funding. The new $750M facility being build in Texas (several thousand km from the Darian Gap = great plan!) was approved internally at USDA. There was nothing stopping the funding in '21 other than not recognizing how dire the problem could become in just a few years.

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  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So did the dems use presidential decree to get the funding in 2023?

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  • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bullshit. Republicans always believed in it.

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