How is it possible that foreign aid and a TikTok bill are in the same bill. That to me sounds like having to vote to accept one thing but also another thing that is completely unrelated.
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Laws are written with words.
I can write a sentence that talks about the weather today and a giant flying blue wale, even if those things are completely unrelated.
To prevent that you could try to make a heuristic that says “laws have to be about only one thing” — but then who gets to define what “one thing” is? If I call the law “The 2024 Protecting Sovereignty Act” — well, foreign aid is protecting sovereignty (not necessarily US sovereignty, but I didn’t call the Law US sovereignty), and arguably banning tiktok, a major spreader of disinformation, is ALSO about protecting sovereignty (in this case, US Sovereignty, and our ability to limit disinformation, in an upcoming election).
The above claims dont even have to be agreed by everyone, but as long as I can SAY it is about one topic, how would you stop that from being a legitimate “law”?
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