Democrats Block Motion to Preserve Budgetary Restraint on Green New Deal, Climate Proposals

breitbart ^ | SEAN MORAN4 Jan 20218

[MarvinStinson]

House Democrats blocked a motion Monday that would have preserved a long-standing budgetary restraint on excessive government spending. Democrats eliminated the restraint for climate change proposals such as the Green New Deal.

Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO), the House Budget Committee ranking member, offered a motion to commit on the Democrats’ rules package for the 117th Congress. The motion to commit would strike the Democrats’ provision that creates an exemption for climate-related legislation for the pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) restriction on spending. PAYGO mandates that new spending is either offset by a “payfor” such as tax increases or spending cuts. Democrats blocked the motion.

Eliminating the PAYGO provision serves as a significant victory for progressives, as leftists would have had to find significant savings or tax increases to pay for an expensive climate change program such as the Green New Deal. Some estimates have found that the Green New Deal could cost $93 trillion.

The Intercept’s Ryan Grim explained:

Clipping the wings of PAYGO doesn’t just pave the way for big-ticket progressive agenda items, but will also be a boon to progressive legislators. Functionally speaking, PAYGO meant that any legislation that spent money needed a “payfor” — some additional piece of legislation that has been analyzed by the Congressional Budget Office and deemed to save X amount of money, equal to or greater than the new spending.

“On only day two of the 117th Congress, House Democrats are already attempting to strip Americans of the transparency they deserve in order to push through an expensive progressive wish-list,” Smith said, adding:

“This exemption was designed as a mechanism to ram through socialist policies like the Green New Deal and other ideas aimed at hurting American workers, families, and farmers,” Smith said.

[MarvinStinson]

“This exemption was designed as a mechanism to ram through socialist policies like the Green New Deal”

[SmokingJoe]

And just how will that go down in the US Senate?

[a fool in paradise]

Green Menace funding is like Planned Parenthood funding

It pays for Leftist messaging and agenda items and some comes back to the Democrats as campaign funding

[billyboy15]

Democrats cannot succeed without needy, hurting people. They are the easiest to bribe.

[PIF]

And just how will that go down in the US Senate?

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Just fine, adding in some of their own pork, should the Democrats take the 2 Georgia seats.

[Carl Vehse]

Demonicrat treason continues.

[circlecity]

Interesting that 80% of the GND proposals have nothing to do with the environment and are all about income redistribution.

[Karma_Sherab]

Just fine, adding in some of their own pork, should WHEN the Democrats take STEAL the 2 Georgia seats.

There, fixed it for you.

[SmokingJoe]

Except the Dems are not taking 2 Georgia seats.
And the Georgia seats will be litigated at least for the same length as Al Franken litigated his seat in 2008/2009, when Franked continued to sue in court till July 2009 when Franken finally took his seat after managing to steal enough votes.
In the meanwhile, we control the US Senate when this bill comes to the Senate.

[Theophilous Meatyard III]

Gremlins (Rats) gumming up the works again.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“And just how will that go down in the US Senate?”

Will let you know in two days.