I don't understand what's fraudulent about it? By definition, it cannot be fraud. The constitution does not dictate or spell out in any way what kinds of spending Congress can make.

So how is it fraud? It's all out in the open. Go read the last omnibus bill. Read through usapending.gov.

Congress allowing and allocating/giving the ok for the Pentagon to buy 20k toilets doesn't make it fraud.

The allocations and spending is absolutely insane. No question and I hope it ends. But I don't see how it can be fraud.

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It’s fraud if the stated allocation is a cover up for something else. Or even just overpaying on line item A because funding for line item B from the same company is approved at a level lower than the people buying line item B were hoping for.

Kind of like the idea that care for veterans especially veterans wounded in war isn’t counted as defense spending.

Wasting your breath, people will excuse the type similar to what they would use or are benefiting from elsewhere or wish to use in future...

All kinds of mental gymnastics will ensue to avoid it.

Humans are a shit species.

Anything bigger than a clan is going to always end the same way...

Article 1 section 9 clause 7 of the US Constitution. Lying about what the money is used for in the books is defrauding the taxpayers.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-9/