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applegrove

(118,022 posts)
Fri Oct 1, 2021, 11:16 PM Oct 2021

Biden Floats $2 Trillion Reconciliation Bill

Biden Floats $2 Trillion Reconciliation Bill

October 1, 2021 at 9:45 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 118 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/10/01/biden-floats-2-trillion-reconciliation-bill/

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“President Biden, meeting with House Democrats on Capitol Hill on Friday, indicated they must further delay a final vote on a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and scale back his $3.5 trillion social spending package to around $2 trillion range if either is to pass,” Axios reports.

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Biden Floats $2 Trillion Reconciliation Bill (Original Post) applegrove Oct 2021 OP
From the original $6 trillion down to $2 trillion. notinkansas Oct 2021 #1
Some of the plans not included they can run on in an election like subsidized pre-k applegrove Oct 2021 #2
Running on something and getting it passed notinkansas Oct 2021 #6
Hopefully they'll just cut down the spending window wellst0nev0ter Oct 2021 #3
I think this is a better plan than notinkansas Oct 2021 #7
Excellent Idea, let people see the programs fully funded in action. bluewater Oct 2021 #8
I hope so too Bettie Oct 2021 #10
Why not just take what we can get right now dsp3000 Oct 2021 #4
Dems have been doing this for what seems like forever. notinkansas Oct 2021 #9
I figured Ollie Garkie Oct 2021 #5
That sounds like the name of one of the Bettie Oct 2021 #11

applegrove

(118,022 posts)
2. Some of the plans not included they can run on in an election like subsidized pre-k
Sat Oct 2, 2021, 12:00 AM
Oct 2021

which actually increases taxes and has a big multiplier effect a Quebec Study of more than 20 years proved.

notinkansas

(1,095 posts)
6. Running on something and getting it passed
Sat Oct 2, 2021, 12:44 PM
Oct 2021

are wildly different things. With all the voter suppression being made into law in so many states, it's certainly not a given that Dems will have control of the legislature after the next election.

Gotta get voting rights legislation passed before then is so critical.

bluewater

(5,376 posts)
8. Excellent Idea, let people see the programs fully funded in action.
Sat Oct 2, 2021, 12:47 PM
Oct 2021

Keeping the yearly funding for all programs intact and allowing Democrats to run to renew those social safety net programs once Americans have had a chance to see them in action.

Excellent idea.

dsp3000

(469 posts)
4. Why not just take what we can get right now
Sat Oct 2, 2021, 01:01 AM
Oct 2021

give the democrats and joe a win on "compromise", energize our base for 2022, and hope we get 2 more senate seats, and get the rest then? 3 trillion is plenty.

notinkansas

(1,095 posts)
9. Dems have been doing this for what seems like forever.
Sat Oct 2, 2021, 12:48 PM
Oct 2021

It might be pretty hard to energize a base having delivered not much of anything.

Ollie Garkie

(184 posts)
5. I figured
Sat Oct 2, 2021, 01:39 AM
Oct 2021

this would be the next step, including the 2T price tag. I await with baited breath
what the 2 headed monster stepchild Manchinema will say when they weigh in.

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