Representative Ilhan Omar took a break from bashing Israel over the weekend to offer this observation about federal budgeting:
It turns out that her presentation of budget math is no more honest than her conspiracy theories about Jewish influence.
Omar’s budget tweet is in line with a popular genre of argument on the left which perpetuates the myth that if only we weren’t wasting money on weapons, we could afford to deliver free health care to everybody — and just about everything else. Her squadmate, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, tried something similar a few weeks ago.
