Job No. 1 for GOP: Try to stop Bernie’s $3.5 trillion monstrosity
By David Harsanyi
August 31, 2021 7:37pm Updated
How radical is the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion monstrous spending bill?
Well, it’s not only the single most expensive legislation in American history, it may well be the most far-reaching expansion of the welfare state as well. Democrats have crammed pieces of virtually every one of their agenda items into the bill, including implementing parts of Green New Deal, amnesty for illegal immigrants, expanding Medicare and funding union bailouts.
It is also the first American budget bill authored by a socialist. If Senate Budget Chair Bernie Sanders gets his way, Democrats will have spent $5 trillion this year alone — more than all the money American outlays for World War II, even after adjusting the cost for inflation.
Of course, Democrats don’t have the votes needed to pass a bill using normal Senate procedures. So, they plan to bypass debate, and unilaterally cram the bill using reconciliation — a tool passed in the early 1970s as means of enacting deficit reduction. The reconciliation process only requires a simple majority. And with Democrats holding 50 Senate seats, it falls on Vice President Kamala Harris would be the tie-breaking vote. They will need every Democrat to lockstep.
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