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President Joe will not pass the 3.5 tril plan

Journal by fustakrakich

Consider it dead, along with voting/medical rights, despite Pelosi's theatrical drama

Using a legislative maneuver called reconciliation, the budget resolution is protected from being filibustered in the Senate, allowing a simple majority to approve the legislation in each chamber.

With the evenly divided Senate, Manchin is a needed vote for Democrats. They can pass the budget bill with 50 votes, meaning all Democratic-voting senators need to vote "aye" because no Republicans are expected to support the massive legislation.

But, Manchin wrote Thursday, "I, for one, won’t support a $3.5 trillion bill, or anywhere near that level of additional spending, without greater clarity about why Congress chooses to ignore the serious effects inflation and debt have on existing government programs."

Wall Street bailouts (roughly 3.5 trillion every two and a half years)? No problem

Probably just as good, we're not supposed to have that much pork in our diets anyway.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 03 2021, @12:58AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 03 2021, @12:58AM (#1173913)

    Bumping And while Biden engorges Wall Street with 120 bil a month [soylentnews.org] down with the day's political headlines. Top notch d00d.

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday September 03 2021, @02:50PM (2 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday September 03 2021, @02:50PM (#1174063) Journal

    Yep, gotta hide that spanking!

    And just like getting out of Afghanistan, the second this bill passes it will become a terrible bill, or he'll just scream FAKE NEWS and just pretend it didn't pass.

    • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday September 03 2021, @05:11PM (1 child)

      by fustakrakich (6150) on Friday September 03 2021, @05:11PM (#1174125) Journal

      :-) We are not "out of Afghanistan". They just turned off the cameras.

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      La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 07 2021, @06:55PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 07 2021, @06:55PM (#1175446)

        Whatabout? Whatabout! Whatabout the old journal? Old news, on to newer and better narratives?