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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 03 2021, @02:47AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 03 2021, @02:47AM (#1173951)

    Election officials will face criminal prosecution if they mail unsolicited absentee ballots to voters or interfere in any way with partisan poll watchers, who are granted extra rights and protections under the law.

    I don't see a problem with this. Sending out unsolicited absentee ballots is prima-facie election fraud and poll watchers are one of the most basic protections to ensure fair elections. Interfering with poll watchers should be a crime. [wikipedia.org].

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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Friday September 03 2021, @03:30PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday September 03 2021, @03:30PM (#1174081) Journal

    Sending out unsolicited absentee ballots...

    Good thing that is something that has literally never happened, eh?