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Re:Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress d... by m0zg on Saturday January 26, 2019 @05:02PM (#19008796)
But it was the other way around: _the Trump administration_ (of which Kushner is perhaps the sharpest instrument; I had a media-distorted view of him until I watched some interviews -- dude is super smart) engaged with others in a bipartisan way to make this happen.
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Re:Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress d... by microcolonel on Saturday January 26, 2019 @05:46PM (#19009047)
Certainly, I get that; but I don't see why a similar effort couldn't be conducted from the outside in. Clearly it would work better to convince somebody effective within the administration to champion it, but my point was mainly that they're not inherently that resistant to it.
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