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13. Using what for money?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Jun 8, 2026, 02:53 PM

12 hrs ago

He spending our taxpayer dollars like there's no tomorrow - is Congress going to appropriate funds for his real estate fetish? Or his he going to move money from one place to another to another to another and htionsope nobody notices? And doesn't the Senate - who per the Constitution have to approve treaties - get a say in territory acquisitions?

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