the embassy move from happening. seriously. tucked into the $1.1 trillion spending bill a provision that bans anything from happening to the vatican embassy. it stays as is. it also bans the anti-poverty activist group a.c.o.r.n. the new budget includes four separate provisions blocking any funding to a.c.o.r.n. if you re keeping score at home, a.c.o.r.n. has not existed for four years now. but it will not get any federal funding. suffice to say, the new spending bill includes a lot of nonsense, generated from the comment section of the conspiratoral youtube clips about kenya. but there is one very controversial bit of business that did make it into the 1,582-page spending bill. and the washington post had an exclusive on it today. according to the post, sneaked into a classified annex of this giant bill is a secret provision that would block president
it also bans the anti-poverty activist group a.c.o.r.n. the new budget includes four separate provisions blocking any funding to a.c.o.r.n. if you re keeping score at home, a.c.o.r.n. has not existed for four years now. but it will not get any federal funding. suffice to say, the new spending bill includes a lot of nonsense, generated from the comment section of the conspirator yal youtube clips about kenya. but there is one very controversial bit of business that did make it into the 1,582-page spending bill. and the washington post had an exclusive on it today. according to the post, sneaked into a classified annex of this giant bill is a secret provision that would block president obama s plan to shift control of the drone program, to shift control of the u.s. armed unmanned drone program from the cia to the pentagon. and in his big historic speech last week on the war on terror, president obama open talked about the drone program for the first time. and what he announced in the b
scandal. and now it s in the budget. what? republicans have put their collectively ill informed foot down now and they have banned the embassy move from happening. seriously. tucked into the $1.1 trillion spending sbil a provision that bans anything from happening to the vatican embassy. it stays as is. it also bans the anti-poverty activist group a.c.o.r.n. the new budget includes four separate provisions blocking any funding to a.c.o.r.n. if you re keeping score at home, a.c.o.r.n. has not existed for four years now. but it will not get any federal funding. suffice to say, the new spending bill includes a lot of nonsense, generated from the comment section of the conspirator yal youtube clips about kenya. but there is one very controversial bit of business that did make it into the 1,582-page spending bill. and the washington post had an exclusive on it today. according to the post, sneaked
they saying? reporter: that s the a really good question because we reported that acorn s chapters are reorganizing and changing their names in several places under different groups apparently to shed the acorn moniker. today in a statement from bertha lewis, the head of acorn, she said it was an unconstitutional attack and in part said, quote, all of us suffer when a politically-motivated frenzy feeds a rush to judgment. after nearly two years of continual attack by the extreme right aided by many who should have known better, she says, acorn has now been exonerated in many forums, but it s still unclear how this federal money would be used with these new groups that have been kind of reincorporated in the acorn offices. jon: so they ve got their money back, they ve got their cash cow in congress, i guess, pumping the money back in, but are they still having troubles? reporter: yeah. she says they rely mostly on private donations, but there are more problems. you know all those sl
registration fraud allegations that we reported on during the presidential election in 2008? well, now there are more. just this week breaking in milwaukee new allegations against two acorn workers that they engaged in alleged voter registration fraud. the two workers are charged in a very similar case, like others, with felonies. they allegedly submitted multiple voter registrations for the same people all to meet acorn s quotas. we ve seen this dozens of times before. acorn, though, has denied to us that it has had a quo that, but acorn itself is set to go on trial as equivalent defendant in nevada and a very similar case this spring. in fact, jon, acorn workers have even gone to jail for voter registration fraud, some of of the allegations in congress, darrell issa issued a report calling acorn a criminal organization. the allegations continue despite the judge s ruling that it can get taxpayer federal money. jon: interesting developments.