Posted on 10/15/2021 12:31:38 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
President Biden on Friday admitted that his $3.5 trillion social spending plan won’t pass Congress as proposed — and that free community college is one of the items that will get cut.
“To be honest with you, we’re probably not going to get $3.5 trillion this year. We’re going to get something less than that. But I’m going to negotiate, I’m going to get it done,” the president said.
Biden said, “I don’t know that I can get it done, but I also have proposed free community college, like you’ve done here in the state of Connecticut.”
Left-wing Democrats have insisted the $3.5 trillion price tag was already a compromise and they’re threatening to derail a Senate-passed $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill if too much is removed from the larger proposal.
The sprawling social spending bill can pass Congress with only Democratic votes under special budget reconciliation rules, but it’s stalled in the Senate because of reluctance over the price tag and specific proposals from centrists including Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.).
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Demented Joe looks like he needs some Republican help.
They’ll tweak it just enough so that it does pass.
I don’t think they’d engage in this exercise non-stop if they knew it wouldn’t eventually pass in some form.
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I want it all crashing down in ruin.
It’s time to stop printing and spending money we don’t have.
they’re threatening to derail a Senate-passed $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill if too much is removed from the larger proposal.
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This Trojan horse would already be dead but for these Assistant Democrats
Dan Sullivan (R-AK) Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) Mike Crapo (R-ID) Roy Blunt (R-MO) Richard Burr (R-NC) Deb Fischer (R-NE) Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Rob Portman (R-OH) Thom Tillis (R-NC) Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Jim Risch (R-ID) Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Bill Cassidy (R-LA) Kevin Cramer (R-ND) Roger Wicker (R-MS) Mitch McConnell (R-KY) John Hoeven (R-ND) Susan Collins (R-ME) Mitt Romney (R-UT)
Probably one of the few things in that pork package that would actually benefit the country, too: a good, strong trades program, with at least as much governmental support of technical and vocational schools as of “higher” edu.
When I went to JC it was so cheap as to be negligible to get my welding certificate, get damned good at drafting, and learn COBOL.
If someone wants to study ‘sociology’ or such, let them pay for it themselves; investing in plumbers, HVAC techs, truck drivers and surveyors will pay us taxpayers back, I think; CRT theorists and marxist professors, not so much.
Exactly. This is all political theater. The details of the backroom deals (aka kickbacks and pork) are just being hammered out.
They assisted getting him into office, they assisted with the Trojan horse infrastructure bill, they really want to keep their fingerprints off the country killing bill, but will help with that if they have to.
None of this crap is covered under the Constitutional duties of Congress or the Executive.
As Biden said, CT passed a free community college act. If that is true, that is up to the people of CT—not the rest of the country.
I wish someone would ask why its the Federal Government’s duty to make sure my kid had a baby sitter with a 4 year degree.
I am rooting for the left wing.
Every. Single. One. Needs. Primaried.
Trump has to stop endorsing them.
He is making it much harder to get rid of the Bush League Republicans.
Yeah, that’s it! Trim off a little of the sh*t around the edges, that was going to be dumped anyway, That’s the ticket!
We have to hope that the Dems keep fighting themselves until the midterms.
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In my opinion, it’s our only hope to at least, slow down the damage.
community college was never free....someone is paying for it.
If the Democrats do not pass something in too weeks, they might as well as forget about it for 2021. Then realistically they have 8 months left before the August recess and then it’ll be election season so everyone will be at their homes districts trying to get reelected.
It would be really nice to see one of the Republican Congress people ask why college costs so much, and why an overwhelming number of graduates cannot get a job in their chosen degreed field. Start turning the screws on the universities
The dollar amount doesn’t matter as much as getting the programs instituted. They can easily add dollars to the programs once they are in place,
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