Liberals’ Defense-Spending Misdirection
By Philip Klein
October 21, 2021 6:30 AM
The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group transits the Pacific Ocean in formation, January 25, 2020. (Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Anthony Rivera/US Navy)
Another dishonest attempt to make a reckless $6 trillion agenda seem reasonable.
NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE L iberals have tested many different talking points to make it seem as if their reckless ambitions to pass $6 trillion in new spending over the course of President Biden’s first year in office are actually quite reasonable. They’ve claimed, with debt as a share of the economy set to eclipse the World War II record, that deficits don’t really matter, and they’ve asserted that a $3.5 trillion spending bill actually costs zero dollars. Now, they are dusting off a golden oldie by trying to argue that their agenda pales in comparison to what we spend on defense.
“It’s time to rethink our priorities,” the left-wing CAP Action tweeted, pointing to a graphic purportedly showing that the reconciliation bill costs less than half what is spent on defense.
Later in the day, Sahil Kapur, who used to write at the liberal TPM and is now at NBC, echoed the talking point, portraying it as offering “some context on price tags.”
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