{"id":320064,"date":"2021-08-10T01:46:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T22:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hope-that-dems-double-dealing-dooms-them-both\/"},"modified":"2021-08-10T01:46:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T22:46:48","slug":"hope-that-dems-double-dealing-dooms-them-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hope-that-dems-double-dealing-dooms-them-both\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hope that Dems\u2019 double-dealing dooms them both"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Hope that Dems\u2019 double-dealing dooms them both<\/strong>”
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The $1 trillion \u201cinfrastructure\u201d plan poised to pass the Senate is a bad bill; the only possible excuse its Republican backers have is the claim that it may help stop a truly terrible one \u2014\u00a0the $3.5 trillion social<\/a>-spendapalooza Democrats will introduce next. <\/p>\n

Contra the hype, the 2,700-page \u201cbad\u201d bill won\u2019t pay for itself, and only a tenth of its spending ($110 billion) is for roads, bridges and other major infrastructure projects. (And even that includes plenty of waste, since as the White House notes most of it \u201cwill be subject to Davis-Bacon requirements,\u201d meaning union-friendly prevailing-wage rules that vastly boost costs.)<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the bill drops plenty on Dem wish-list projects: $65 billion to expand broadband Internet access, including a new federal entitlement for low-income households, $73 billion for clean-energy transmission and $7.5 billion for an electric-vehicle-charging network.<\/p>\n

The \u201cpays for itself\u201d claim is bunk: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says it\u2019ll add $256 billion to the deficit over the next decade. (That rises to $350 billion when you add in $90 billion in new contract-authority spending, notes the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget\u2019s Marc Goldwein.) Notably, it pretends that using leftover COVID-relief funds and unemployment benefits will save $263 billion; the CBO says it\u2019d be more like $22 billion.<\/p>\n

Worse: Once the Senate passes this mess, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says, it will then take up the $3.5 trillion package \u2014 a horror aiming to turn America into the welfare state of Bernie Sanders\u2019 dreams. It would hike taxes on business and the wealthy to create multiple new entitlements: universal preschool, free community college, paid family and medical leave. It would expand Medicare benefits while reducing the program\u2019s eligibility age, dump more cash on \u201cgreen energy\u201d subsidies \u2014\u00a0and even offer immigrants green cards, though the plan Schumer unveiled Monday doesn\u2019t give details on exactly which <\/em>immigrants would get them.<\/p>\n

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is backing the infrastructure bill, with the calculation that it will give a win to Dem moderates like Joe Manchin (D-WVa.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and encourage them to hold the line against the bigger bill. Schumer plans to ram through the larger package using reconciliation and can\u2019t afford to lose one Democrat vote. But that\u2019s a huge risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One nice wrinkle: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she won\u2019t introduce the $1 trillion bill in the House unless the $3.5 trillion bill also passes the Senate. So pray first that the terrible bill dies \u2014 and that Pelosi then sticks to her guns.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Hope that Dems\u2019 double-dealing dooms them both” The $1 trillion \u201cinfrastructure\u201d plan poised to pass the Senate is a bad bill; the only possible excuse its Republican backers have is the claim that it may help stop a truly terrible one \u2014\u00a0the $3.5 trillion social-spendapalooza Democrats will introduce next. Contra the hype, the 2,700-page \u201cbad\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":320065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/infrastructure-bill-095.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[113761,71313,10701,43,72036,991],"class_list":["post-320064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-8-9-21","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-democrats","tag-editorial","tag-infrastructure","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}