[Chris] Christie
viewed Jared [Kushner] as one of those rich people who thinks that, because
he's rich, he must also be smart.
They needed to fill
all the cabinet positions, of course, but also a whole bunch of others that no
one in the Trump campaign even knew existed.
Roughly half of the
DOE's [Dept of Energy] annual $30 billion budget is spent on maintaining and
guarding our nuclear arsenal. Two
billion of that goes to hunting down weapons-grade plutonium and uranium at
loose in the world so it doesn’t fall into the hands of terrorists. In eight years alone -- 2010-2018 -- the
DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration collected enough material to
make 160 nuclear bombs.
It is what you never
learned that might have saved you.
Into USDA jobs, some
of which paid nearly $80,000 a year, the Trump team had inserted a long-haul
truck driver, a clerk at AT&T, a gas-company meter reader, a country-club
cabana attendant, a Republican National Committee intern, and the owner of a scented-candle
company, with skills like "pleasant demeanor" listed on their
resumes.
In 1872, the average
American farmer fed roughly four other people; how the average farmer feeds
about 155 other people.
Every inch of snow
cost the city of New York $1.8 million dollars.
One hundred
Americans were dying every day in car crashes.
