Posted on 12/16/2021 9:31:09 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Due to party infighting, Democrats are now looking to push a vote on Joe Biden’s big-government socialism juggernaut, the Build Back Better Act, into next year.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) had hoped to pass the bill before Christmas, but key holdouts like Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) made it impossible to pass the bill through the evenly split Senate due to his concerns about the hefty price tag. Democrats now expect a vote won’t happen until January at the earliest.
But that’s wishful thinking, according to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) who says Biden’s $3 trillion plan is “dead forever.”
“I think Build Back Better is dead forever, and let me tell you why,” Graham told Sean Hannity Wednesday evening on Fox News Channel’s Hannity. “Because Joe Manchin has said he’s not going to vote for a bill that will add to the deficit. Well, if you do away with the budget gimmicks, Build Back Better, according to the [Congressional Budget Office], adds $3 trillion to the deficit.”
“Build Back Better was the signature issue of the radical left,” Graham said. “It died in the Senate because the CBO, which I do not control … I laugh when I hear Democrats say it’s a fake number, the CBO number … it used to be the gold standard. I haven’t hypnotized the CBO. [The CBO looks] at the bill as if all of the programs, like the child tax credit, go for 10 years, not one year.”
“The CBO and the inflation number last Friday, I think, killed Build Back Better,” Graham added. “They were trying to pass a lie. And God Bless Joe Manchin for sticking to his guns.”
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You can bet your bottom dollar that this grotesque monstrosity will be back in some form. They got too close to the finish line to throw it all away just yet.
If Pelosi counts the votes and is ‘remarkably’ re-elected as Speaker, she will bring it back herself.
Maybe she wants to go out with a bang.
Not dead
They are never dead
Obamacare was essentially Hillary’s 1993 attempt 25 years later
Porkzilla dead? ROFL!
Who are we kidding? This is $3T worth of pork. $3T. And it’s passage is lacking just one vote? I would bet that there are at least a half dozen republicans who are dying for the chance to “reach across the aisle in a spirit of bipartisanship” and make this happen.
Its not the ‘bbb’ part that a lot of folks are griping about, its the stimulus checks, the socsec raises beyond cola, its the raises also for ssi, ssdi, va, and railroad pensions that are in that bill too.
Republicans will help the dems revive it.
$2T bill that, as I understand it, was ‘scored’ by the CBO at $5T. Because new programs that are funded for only 1-year are a budgetary joke.
Just as Communism didn’t die with the fallure of the Soviet Union, these progressive objectives will not die with the failure of this bill
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Bidung made some 43 SECRET visits to Delaware BEFORE taxpayers even knew about this tax gouge.
Notice that no Bidens...that we know of... came to the WH b/c they’d be listed on the WH visitors list. Bidung had to do all the dirty work in Delaware......as the trillions mounted.
The Biden Crime Family staked out their interest and got the money laundering machines in place BEFORE BIDUNG UNVEILED IT.
The democrats will put some bondo on it repaint it and sell as a new and improved model.
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