Manchin: Biden's New Spending Plan Relies on 'Shell Games' and 'Budget Gimmicks'
"I'm open to supporting a final bill that helps move our country forward, but I'm equally open to voting against a bill that hurts our country," Manchin says.
"I'm open to supporting a final bill that helps move our country forward, but I'm equally open to voting against a bill that hurts our country," Manchin says.
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These schools are already extremely accessible to low-income students. Don’t mess with their flexibility.
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And it just might reduce the tax burden for the well-off in the short term.
The idea that massive government spending, hate speech laws, and gun control will improve America—when they failed horribly elsewhere—is a dangerous myth.
Forty years from now, it'll be much, much, much higher.
Legislating with budget gimmicks is shameful, timid, risky, and opportunistic. Mostly, though, it's really expensive.
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Manchin's $1.5 trillion plan is still bigger than the Obama stimulus, and would be a major expansion of government's power to redistribute wealth.
New analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office shows massive deficit increase as a result of spending bill’s health care provisions.
When everything's a priority, nothing is.
For Biden, "build back better’" apparently means eyes on everything in the economy.
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"Spending trillions more on new and expanded government programs, when we can't even pay for the essential social programs...is the definition of fiscal insanity."
The President's inaugural "unity" rhetoric has given way to apocalyptic condemnation.
They give an edge to big companies that have no problems accessing capital and whose executives are often well-connected with politicians.
Under Biden, Democrats have decided that their agenda has no costs and no tradeoffs.
Profligate government spending supposedly has nothing to do with it.
Democrats are now relying on the same "dynamic scoring" technique they've previously criticized.
Democrats want to raise the debt ceiling, while Republicans occasionally remember they're against big government spending.
The problem isn’t the GOP or Senate rules. It’s that Democrats can’t agree amongst themselves.
The $3.5 trillion bill includes a new program to subsidize the makers of "sustainable aviation fuel."
There simply aren't enough rich people to finance all the new spending.
Biden's plan will raise taxes on individuals earning as little as $30,000 annually by 2027, but that's just a trick to make the overall cost of the bill look lower than it really is.
Biden's American Families Plan would put most working-age American households on the dole.
House Democrats' proposed excise taxes could double or triple the price of some vaping products.
A new analysis projects that private capital, wages, and America's GDP will fall over the next three decades if Congress passes the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. But at least government debt will grow!
The plan would make a liar out of Biden on a level reminiscent of George H.W. Bush's betrayal of his "read my lips" tax pledge.
How spending got out of control and words lost their meaning.
Without policy changes, beneficiaries will receive only 78 percent of what was promised starting in 2034.
The health program won't be able to pay all of its bills starting in 2026, according to a new Trustees report.
To spend a lot of money, or to spend a lot more money? That is the question.
A minority of the population picking up the tab would be dangerous if the situation were to last.
A U.S. agency spent 13 years documenting our government's failure to stabilize or rebuild the country.
Setting aside the harassment claims and the nursing home debacle, the Cuomo administration’s inability to run a minimally functional rent relief program should forever end his reputation as a competent executive.
As it turns out, state and local tax revenues hardly collapsed.
The Senate just passed a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill—and teed up another $3.5 trillion bill in the process.
A CBO report that might have sunk legislation in an earlier era was greeted with a bipartisan shrug.
The bipartisan infrastructure deal that's expected to pass the Senate this week would spend $65 billion on broadband projects, including more than $40 billion for largely unnecessary municipal broadband efforts.
Amtrak's funding will double under the bipartisan infrastructure bill, while Amtrak passengers will have to put up with more rules.
As inflation increases, we need a low-debt environment.
The U.S. national debt held by the public is currently almost $22 trillion, surpassing the country's annual GDP for the first time since World War II.
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