The Budget Busting Bill moves the Space Shuttle to Texas

[gabester]

I am surprised they didn't take one from CA or NY, just to stick it to the liberals. DC does not vote. Why take their shuttle?

If you ask me, it's precisely because Washington, D.C. does not have any electoral votes and is under direct federal jurisdiction that the Smithsonian orbiter was - according to the sources I've read - the intended target but not specifically called out by name. Instead, the legislation merely: 

Stipulates that a "space vehicle" (defined as a vessel that carried people into space) be transferred within 18 months of enactment to a NASA center "involved in the administration of the Commercial Crew program"

So the Texas Senators have set their sites on Discovery but have a CYA in case it proves too expensive, a Dragon capsule would do, or better yet, how about the Starliner from Boeing? 

However, the real concern is this - because of DC's special status and the President's ability to pardon any illegality, I'd expect anything of value to be looted from the city before the end of his term and taken off to deep red cultist fiefdoms as reward for their service. Protests there can be crushed in ways that would not be practical in any of the States, even with the gamesmanship currently wasting valuable tax dollars in LA. 

The billionaires rewarded by this legislation really ought to demand that all the pork in it ought to be reviewed and removed by the now-well-funded (to the tune of $100 million?) DOGE is that is money that could have been spent granting them additional tax relief. Instead I suspect they'll be using their gains off the sweat of our backs to buy rare trinkets from the national museum when they're not bribing officials for additional gains.