roachpatrol:

brainstatic:

The NDAA is a “must-pass” bill that gets reauthorized every year. This year, $60 million of the $700 billion total went to nuclear R&D. Warren, to her credit, added amendments designed to make the DOD more transparent in how it will use the money and the rationale behind it, but since Republicans control everything, they set the overall agenda. However, the NDAA hasn’t gone through the final appropriations process yet, and in past years Democrats have used their votes to leverage equivalent amounts of money into domestic programs, so it’s in their best interest to play along with this first phase so they can exploit the later phases for non-military spending.

Edit: the infrastructure of our current nuclear arsenal is dangerously out of date, more money into the DOE to make sure warheads don’t leak through shitty 20-year-old casing should be bipartisan.

Edit 2: I found the link in the first tweet and it explains literally all of this, read the fucking articles people.

STOP DEMONIZING DEMOCRATIC WOMEN WHO ARE DOING THEIR BEST TO NEGOTIATE WORKABLE SOLUTIONS TO HORRIBLE REPUBLICAN PROBLEMS