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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox News' Chris Wallace Nails GOP Senator: Wouldn't Your State 'Benefit From' Biden's Spending Bill?
Video at the linkThe Fox News anchor repeatedly grilled John Barrasso on his opposition to Bidens social policy spending bill, noting that many provisions would greatly help Wyoming residents.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/chris-wallace-nails-gop-sen-john-barrasso-asks-him-if-his-state-would-benefit-from-bidens-spending-bill
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace confronted Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) on Sunday over the Republican lawmakers full-throated opposition to President Joe Bidens reconciliation spending package, noting that the bill not only contains provisions Barrasso has supported in the past but that his state would also overwhelmingly benefit from the bill. While the progressive and moderate wings of the Democratic Party continue to hash out the final details of the massive social policy spending bill, Republicans have remained united in opposition to it.
Interviewing Barrasso on Fox News Sunday, Wallace wondered aloud if this was all a political game for the Wyoming lawmaker and his GOP cohorts. As you point out, 19 of your fellow Republican senators voted for the bipartisan infrastructure plan in the Senate. You did not. You called the reconciliation bill a freight train to socialism. You and all of the Republicans were refusing the normal coursethe bipartisan passage of raising the debt limit. So I guess the question to you and a lot of Republicans is are you viewing these issues on the merits or are you just playing partisan politics? Barrasso, for his part, said he supported a lot of whats in the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal but feels it spent too much and he was concerned with the gimmicks that were used to fund it. He also claimed that Republicans opposed the reconciliation package because they want to grow the economy while Democrats want to grow the government.
Turning his attention to the reconciliation bill, the Fox anchor noted that it contains an extension and increase of the child tax credit that Barrasso himself supported when he voted for former President Donald Trumps tax cuts in 2017. Your state of Wyoming is one of the states that benefits most from the increase in the child tax credit. Why oppose that? Wallace asked. After the conservative senator began complaining about the spending bills current $3.5 trillion price tag, the Fox News Sunday moderator cut him off, pushing him on the specific details of the child tax credit. I guess part of the question is could you have worked with them on this child tax credit which you voted for in 2017? Thats one of the things you are voting against right now, Wallace continued. Why oppose that program? Dodging the question, Barrasso insisted you had to look at the entire balance of the bill before complaining that the package calls for more stringent IRS auditing procedures. This is an invasion of privacy, the senator exclaimed. Every senator's hearing about this. That is included as well.
Moving past the child tax credit, Wallace then brought up another item of the spending bill that would help Barassos home state quite a bit. You talk about things you don't likelike the added IRS agents and added IRS intrusion, the veteran anchor declared. Let's talk about another part of the bill which is universal Pre-K. He added: In the state of Wyoming, less than one-quarter of children 3-4, who would be covered in the bill, are enrolled in publicly funded preschool. Less than a quarter. Wouldnt a lot of Wyoming families benefit from universal Pre-K? Barrasso, however, couldnt bring himself to give credit to the president for anything. Theres a number of things that would help Wyoming, he groused. Overall, Joe Biden's policies have been hurting the people of Wyoming. The Republican senator then grumbled that while progressives want to provide free community college, Pre-K, and daycare to Americans, it is not the way our country has been founded.
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msongs
(67,361 posts)LakeArenal
(28,802 posts)Im guessing even Jesus, the great Socialist, would want Wy to have nice things.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)(Found online, created a visual version for self on 3/18/21)
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Most Federally Dependent States (Only 1 of the top 16 HAS A DEMOCRATIC / BLUE Governor)
Rank State Total Score
(1 = Most Dependent) State Residents Dependency / State Governments Dependency
1 New Mexico 86.57 1 6
2 Alaska 84.23 4 4
3 Mississippi 83.94 7 3
4 Kentucky 80.78 5 8
5 West Virginia 75.36 2 12
6 Montana 73.87 14 2
7 Arizona 70.33 10 7
8 Indiana 69.96 8 11
9 South Carolina 67.36 6 17
10 Louisiana 62.45 27 1
11 Alabama 59.36 11 15
12 Wyoming 58.14 24 5
13 Maine 53.8 12 18
14 Tennessee 52.81 22 9
15 Pennsylvania 47.8 17 20
16 Missouri 47.52 29 10
For Clarity... Chart shows which states have Republican Governors COMPLAINING about Federal Aid, while still receiving a ton of it.
See the actual link for more clarity.
Sorry for the confusion.
cinematicdiversions
(1,969 posts)And a bunch of purple.
Withywindle
(9,988 posts)and PA and AZ are purple.
The point still stands, most of those states are red. But it doesn't do to be hyperbolic and inaccurate about it.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)It was put together to ask RED Governors, HOW can you be against FED aid when your state gets so much of it?
rpannier
(24,328 posts)How do you define Bunch
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)The reason for the chart was they were asking Republican Governors, how can you be AGAINST FED help when your state USES so much of it?
SO Maine may be primarily BLUE, but their Gov is Republican.
Sorry, wasn't exactly what I meant to show.
maxsolomon
(33,244 posts)They are winners of the "Biggest Sociopath in the State" contest. Barasso cannot debate on the merits. When asked to, he recites vague cliches.
Daycare is not the way our country was founded?
uponit7771
(90,302 posts)TigressDem
(5,125 posts)Whenever tRump's behavior was so OVER THE LINE that EVEN FAUX bailed on him.... it was kind of a STRONG STATEMENT
STILL not enough to break through the delusions, but they DID call Arizona for Biden and like Pence refused to GIVE tRump the election as VP and SOS of GA - Rassenberger refused to "FIND" the votes for tRump, maybe still too little in some ways, but it was STILL the right thing to do, done by someone under the thumb.... it says a lot about how horrible tRump et al's behavior is.
spanone
(135,792 posts)fuck him
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)IF he can get any bit of the truth to FAUX viewers, more power to him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wallace
NBC Nightly News anchor (19821987)
Meet the Press moderator (19871988)
ABC Primetime correspondent (19892003)
Fox News Sunday anchor (2003present)
Political party Democratic