• arin@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Isn’t the government shutdown? Why are they wasting money on this useless luxury shit?

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      18 hours ago

      All that “government shutdown” means in this context is that certain parts of the government have no money, so can’t operate. The ballroom is largely funded by the President shaking down private companies and forcing them to fund it, so they have plenty of money for this.