Brooks: There’s ‘Chicanery’ on Reconciliation Bill Where You Don’t Count What ‘You Actually Are Spen

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Brooks: There’s ‘Chicanery’ on Reconciliation Bill Where You Don’t Count What ‘You Actually Are Spending’


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV0PUckeGaI&t=450s&ab_channel=PBSNewsHour

Ian Hanchett 2 Oct 20212

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that there is “a little chicanery” in the budget reconciliation package where some of the cost is based on programs expiring in a few years, even though they’ll eventually end up being permanent, and so “You’re just not counting the money you actually are spending.”

Brooks stated, “There’s a little smoke and mirrors in that. When we’ve had these cliffs, where, oh, it’s going to lead — only the child tax credit for three years, well, we all know it’s going to be permanent. You’re just not counting the money you actually are spending. So there’s a little chicanery, I would say, in some of these cliffs that they’ve built into this plan.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/10/02/brooks-theres-chicanery-on-reconciliation-bill-where-you-dont-count-what-you-actually-are-spending/

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Brooks: Other Dem Moderates Are ‘Hiding Behind’ Sinema and Manchin and Are Worried about Spending


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV0PUckeGaI&t=303s&ab_channel=PBSNewsHour

Ian Hanchett 2 Oct 2021

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that he thinks there are other moderates in the Democratic Party who are “hiding behind” Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and “there are moderates in the Democratic Party who probably worry about the spending.”

Brooks said, “Well, it’s a 50/50 Senate. And I think there are a bunch more, Jon Tester. There are other moderates who are sort of hiding behind their coattails. But they represent — Joe Biden was elected as the most moderate member of the Democratic primary field. So, there are moderates in the Democratic Party who probably worry about the spending.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/10/02/brooks-other-dem-moderates-are-hiding-behind-sinema-and-manchin-and-are-worried-about-spending/

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 there is “a little chicanery” in the budget.....I am Shocked to the core.  How can this be?  Brooks must be mistaken.