Posturing. They needed to attract attention while also giving themselves time to wrap it into the military budget and or national budget to get their pay checks. While this process went on, public relation firms are gathering information off social media comments from the public to generate information to pass down to the MSCM.

An aspect of how this works was in the video where the news cast all parroted the same phase (to no fault of their own) they can generate responses as the air clears providing half truths while leaving out the more in depth information hidden in amendments added on. Which will more likely be covered later by independent sources once they can filter through all the pages. But by then the damage is done, people lose interest, moving on blissfully because they don't tend to follow the independent sources.

I often refer to this type of legislature as blackmail legislature. Rather than vote singularity they purposely tie issues that have no correlation to each other, then play a con scheme between the parties representatives to gain false support. This enables people like Sanders to get on the floor and blow hot air while knowing all the while what's actually going down. He gives his supporters a false sense of support keeping them trapped within the democratic party. Ear marks for certain representatives home states, their own companies and or lobbyist companies, and corporations are made behind closed doors we don't hear about until someone forces a release of the entire bill.

As I posted the Sludge article a few days ago with discovery on how a number of representatives funded their own companies from some of the bills passed previously. Some of the key so called progressive's managed to get in on the money also or pass it down to their spouses companies. Omar's husband was a primary example pulling out nearly 2 million.

You probably didn't hear to many left leaning MSM's talk about this. Fox and right leaning sources did. While they took aim at left representatives to some nature. This is all weighed out by relation firms to keep the divided strife alive.