This past week, a group of Senators and the White House finally closed negotiations on a major infrastructure plan, projecting a budget close to $1 trillion that’s expected to create millions of jobs while ticking a major box on the Biden Administration’s agenda.
What might finally seem like a step in the right direction towards collaboration and compromise is just a stab in the back by the Biden Administration, who introduced an unsavory condition in order to actually pass this bill.
The bipartisan infrastructure package plans to modernize U.S. infrastructure through financing a range of programs that will invest in public transportation, make repairs to roads and bridges, increase the network of chargers for electric vehicles, add expansions of broadband internet services, and clean up pollution and lead service lines in the nations water systems.
This is one of the biggest infrastructure packages this country has seen in decades, but it’s not going to come without a price.
Biden pulled the wool over everyone’s eyes with this package, claiming that “it would be good for the economy, good for our country, good for our people.”
And then he dropped a major bomb, backtracking on his words and revealing a broader Democratic spending package called the American Family Plan that he plans to get passed through Congress by reconciliation.
In one conversation, Biden claimed to be fully behind this bill, saying that he “intend[s] to pursue the passage of that plan, which Democrats and Republicans agreed to on Thursday, with vigor.” and now he is saying the opposite…
Not much of a surprise from our President.
His integrity as a leader is under fire after he announced that he would not sign the bipartisan bill unless Congress also passes the American Family Plan; a separate $1.8 trillion package, also referred to as the “human infrastructure plan”.
This plan will invest in education, health care, child care, and tax cuts for families, alongside additional investments into better care for senior citizens, housing, and clean energy.
A plan like this one doesn’t come without major tax increases, and the way the Biden Administration is planning to get this bill passed, doesn’t give the GOP any say in the matter when it comes to votes.
Sen. John Barrasso argued that Republicans are not going to support this $1 trillion infrastructure package “if it is in any way linked and connected to” the broader Democratic spending package. He’s calling it a freight train heading towards socialism”
Biden is telling everyone exactly what they want to hear, which is that he fully stands by the infrastructure bill, but not without an ultimatum that puts the Dem’s in a place of power and authority above the rest…
So much for a ‘unified’ country.
