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Individuals. well, one guy named zach and a few others. i don't know if there's a few others. maybe just him. apparently this didn't raise any red flags at all with the republican-controlled congress. quote, representative bill sustr of pennsylvania, the retiring chairman of the infrastructure committee accepted the requested changes and introduced legislation that would codify them into law. psych! that means he got the retirement program extended. this means zach is going to get to retire at 37. all he has to do is hide under a desk for six months without anybody noticing and then he'll get ...
Year. and got a bunch of headlines for it. so when somebody snuck in and said coast guard needs to do this to match up with the army is doing, i'm sure that sounded good in theory, but literally just google it. just google it. google army early retirement program and this is what pops up. literal literally, yeah, the army just got rid of that. but apparently congressman shuster's office didn't google it. wasn't bothered. didn't see anything wrong with this at all. so bottom line, this story in the "new york times," this scoop from the "times" is that the white house deputy chief of staff may h...
Now thanks to the "new york times" meddling, it's fallen apart. house lawmakers were preparing to push the package through the chamber on wednesday but confronted with questions about the early retirement extension they decided to pull just that provision to ensure that the rest of the technical changes could become law. perhaps my favorite part of all of this is the bull pucky supposed argument about why this change at the coast guard was no big deal and the coast guard needed to extend this program right away just for a few officers as a technical matter. the argument that they would need to...
Itself in this scam by almost letting it happen, that committee is is now transportation and infrastructure committee won't be headed up by shuster, it will be headed up by a democratic pit bull named peter di fazio who we contacted. we have not heard back from him but we will let you know if we do. but if what happened is a pocket-sized platonic ideal of corruption and self-dealing from the white house deputy chief of staff, presumably this will be a matter of investigation under that committee when it gets its new leadership? a couple wrooex. presumably they will investigate it and fix it an...