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President Biden has demanded Congress give him $30 billion for additional pandemic spending while a reported $350 billion remains unspent. As the White House has acknowledged it has enough money from the $1.9 trillion relief package passed in March, Biden wants more taxpayer money already appropriated for fear of another Chinese coronavirus variant metastasizing, the Washington Post reported. Congressional Democrats have stated additional pandemic funds should also be used to expand welfare programs ahead of the midterm elections.

It’s enough to make a budget hawk lose his feathers. Notwithstanding President Obama’s promise in his State of the Union address to freeze domestic discretionary spending for five years, Vice President Joseph Biden Tuesday proposed $53 billion in high-speed-rail projects — atop $8 billion so previously “invested.” This is every boy’s dream: the ultimate train set. Thank you, Santa! For their part, congressional Republicans struggle to find $100 billion in budget cuts, even though their promise to do so fueled their historical election victories last November. So far, they have proposed just $74 billion in cuts for fiscal year 2011,...