Both the Senate parliamentarian and the Government Accountability Office have concluded that Congress lacks authority to block California’s climate policy.

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world
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    This comment fascinates me

    California is apparently about 12% of the total tax revenue of the US, and New York is about 8%. If every other state was equal after that, they are about 1.5 each.

    That’s quite a lot of leverage

    Can’t send people to El Salvador if you can’t pay for planes

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      Didn’t the manager for the Patriots lend his private plane to deport people to Guantanamo? Lack of government funded airplanes won’t stop them

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        iirc the Patriots plane has a 3rd party management that manages a bunch of planes that happens to also include the patriots plane.