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И вот, to add insult to injury:
Conservative groups ripped into Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, accusing him of earmarking $2 billion for a famously troubled lock-and-dam project that would benefit his home state as part of the bill to reopen the government and avert a debt default.
McConnell’s office said he had no role in securing the language, which was authored by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.).
Это очень удачный проект, если кто сомневался:
The Olmsted project is located about 20 miles from the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers near where the borders of Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri meet. It was originally authorized a quarter-century ago and was only expected to cost $775 million. After decades of delays, engineering mistakes and cost overruns, the Army Corps of Engineers now expects to spend $2.9 billion on the project.
Sunk cost fallacy наносит дежурный визит:
“According to the Army Corps of Engineers, 160 million taxpayer dollars will be wasted because of canceled contracts if this language is not included,” Alexander said in a statement.
Ну и конечно же:
If the $2.9 billion is ever actually appropriated, half would come from general funds and half would come from a 20-cents-per-gallon fuel tax paid by barge owners under current law. However, provisions in both the House and Senate version of the Water Resources Development Act change that funding formula, meaning taxpayers could end up stuck with a much bigger portion of the cost.
Это к тому, что ситуация с постановкой трат под контроль не такая, что республиканцы против демократов. Она примерно такая, что небольшая часть республиканцев - против всех остальных.
Conservative groups ripped into Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, accusing him of earmarking $2 billion for a famously troubled lock-and-dam project that would benefit his home state as part of the bill to reopen the government and avert a debt default.
McConnell’s office said he had no role in securing the language, which was authored by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.).
Это очень удачный проект, если кто сомневался:
The Olmsted project is located about 20 miles from the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers near where the borders of Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri meet. It was originally authorized a quarter-century ago and was only expected to cost $775 million. After decades of delays, engineering mistakes and cost overruns, the Army Corps of Engineers now expects to spend $2.9 billion on the project.
Sunk cost fallacy наносит дежурный визит:
“According to the Army Corps of Engineers, 160 million taxpayer dollars will be wasted because of canceled contracts if this language is not included,” Alexander said in a statement.
Ну и конечно же:
If the $2.9 billion is ever actually appropriated, half would come from general funds and half would come from a 20-cents-per-gallon fuel tax paid by barge owners under current law. However, provisions in both the House and Senate version of the Water Resources Development Act change that funding formula, meaning taxpayers could end up stuck with a much bigger portion of the cost.
Это к тому, что ситуация с постановкой трат под контроль не такая, что республиканцы против демократов. Она примерно такая, что небольшая часть республиканцев - против всех остальных.
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