Posted on 08/11/2021 9:16:23 AM PDT by Rummyfan
The Senate approved the framework of a $3.5 trillion budget plan in a key procedural vote on Wednesday morning, allowing the body to move towards a final vote on the issue.
Senators voted to advance the framework 50-49 along party lines, with Senator Mike Rounds (R., S.D.) absent. The vote came just before 4 a.m. following a “vote-a-rama,” during which senators introduced amendments for largely symbolic votes designed to test the level of Senate support for various issues.
The plan provides for universal pre-kindergarten, free two-year community college, tax incentives for clean-energy sources to fight climate change, and an expansion of Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing. Democrats hope to cover the cost of the plan in part with tax hikes on corporations and high-earning families.
“Senate Democrats have just took a massive step towards restoring the middle class of the 21st century,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) said after the vote. “What we’re doing here is not easy. Democrats have labored for months to reach this point….But I can say with absolute certainty that it will be worth doing.”
Republicans unanimously opposed the plan, saying the amount of government spending in the proposal during a time of rising inflation is reckless.
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check.
Can anyone tell me why “bipartisan” is so important? Why must a bill be “bipartisan”? You can plainly see how it leads to disaster, when one party bends over backward to line itself up with the other party’s known ruinous policies. That is simply insane! It goes along with this nonsense about “diversity”. If you have a successful program going, why dilute it with less successful programs, just so you can say it’s not singular? That is a strictly libtard lack-of-working-brain type of thinking.
nicely done.
You realize massive voter theft in Georgia gave these seats to the Ds, right?
They would have both voted to put Biden in office, and probably would have supported this bill. And if they had enough backbone to fight the fraud, THEY would both likely be in office. And Georgia Barbie who slept her way to the top blew it bigtime by selling stocks when she was briefed on Covid.
I’m still glad she lost.
Pork. The other reelection meat.
THEY want it .
30 million invaders wipe out the USA .
They want cheap labor replacement population.
This isn’t how our nation dies, this is the maggoty aftermath of a long-dead corpse.
Those two GA Senators voted to certify the stolen election. We can thank them for this bill. No Biden. No bill. Understand?
When your statements sound like a jr high student wrote them, expect to be treated like one.
so. spare me.
Yeah. That’s what we need. More RINOs to suppress the vote and betray their constituents.
Your precious RINOs helped the Democrats pass a $1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure bill. “19 Senate Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R–Ky.), signed onto the bill...”
This also has the Democrat takeover of state voting, right?
rubber, glue. the sequel.
National Review was never Trump and didn’t fight the stolen election.
this thread is not about that bill. try to keep up.
You may have gotten rid of President Trump you evil SOBs, but you will suffer right along with us you stupid (curse word) idiots.
I WANT THAT BUTTON
Under Nixon, the national debt grew by 34%.
Under Ford, it grew by 47% -- and that was over less than four years.
Carter: 43% (remarkably low compared to what comes next)
Reagan: an astonishing 186% (the highest figure since FDR) -- it's remarkable how utterly irresponsible that guy was when it came to fiscal matters.
George H. W. Bush: 54% -- and that was in just four years.
Bill Clinton: 32% -- this misfit comes across as the most fiscally responsible President of my lifetime other than Trump.
George W. Bush: 105% -- this is what "compassionate conservatism" and a war criminal in the White House gets you.
Barack Obama: 70% -- even this Marxist had limits, apparently. I'm genuinely shocked this number is so low.
Donald J. Trump: 34% -- and this number is highly misleading because it probably would have been about 18% were it not for the massive COVID relief funding bills from his last ten months in office.
most of this will wind up in China...to bail them out of their problems.
you heard it here first
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