Dems are trying to take full advantage of their majority in the Houses and push through their liberal agenda. But luckily Sen Manchin thinks that’s way too much. But what exactly is in this massive spending bill that has more pages than your average Bible.
Jessica Anderson, executive director of Heritage Action, the conservative think tank, summed it up.
“So when you look at the specifics of what’s in the bill, you have everything from welfare for illegal immigrants to critical race theory programs for nurses. You’ve got crazy tax and subsidy portions that would basically [mean] that rural America would be subsidizing the lifestyles of wealthy coastal elites.
“What is actually packed into this bill is a legislative roadmap that would affect all Americans from literally the cradle to grave. So it’s social policies that impact every aspect of our life. They go after businesses. It has provisions on energy, very, very similar to the Green New Deal.
It looks at all of our taxes. It actually insults businesses that are, frankly, hurting right now still from the lockdowns. And now with the COVID vaccine mandates from [President Joe] Biden, where it would drive higher business taxes than the rates that you would see in, let’s say, Communist China.
It has provisions that would provide abortion on demand, abortion for all. And then the IRS provisions that two weeks ago, very few people on the Hill were talking about, but this week more and more have realized just how far the Biden administration is asking Congress to go to weaponize the IRS to spy on Americans.
I mean, this is a huge part of the bill and they’re negotiating it, right? We saw yet just yesterday that they’re changing the threshold from $600 to $10,000 in bank transactions, then it would require the IRS to be allowed to be able to snoop in your bank account.
Well, if you’re an average American, you probably have $10,000 worth of bank transactions a year just by simply paying rent or simply paying your mortgage. And so to think that this is all of a sudden going to limit the spine or weaponizing of the IRS against Americans is just not true. Biden is trying to appease us, but he’s really missing the point. We don’t want to see American institutions going after us, going after all of us, everyday average Americans. And that’s what this bill does.
There are also these huge provisions around illegal immigration. This is literally the largest amount of amnesty that has ever been tried to be pushed by Congress to date and it’s a huge amount of cost on taxpayers, let alone the issue of safety and security when we have a crumbling border that is completely porous and just driving chaos at the border.
So … the reason we’re saying it’s cradle to grave, it’s because all of these issues are interwoven. And it’s basically like the progressive policy wish list that they’ve campaigned on for a decade coming down to one big blender of a bill of this huge price tag of $3.5 trillion.”
And if it were not for Dem Sen Manchin saying no, this would have likely passed. The GOP has very little power in both houses and the Dems are trying to transform the country while they have the power. That’s why they are trying to kill the filibuster while they are at it. The filibuster is one of the only tools the GOP has left to try and stop Dems from passing insane laws.
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