Casey pushes Biden's $3.5 trillion plan at town hall
In a town hall with constituents on Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey urged members of both parties to pass President Joe Biden's economic agenda, which includes a $3.5 trillion government overhaul that he said would lower costs for families and create jobs.
Mr. Casey, a Pennsylvania Democrat, frequently called back to his party's passing of the American Rescue Plan earlier this year and how it happened without a single Republican vote, insisting that the next period of legislative action is crucial to America's recovery from the pandemic.
As some Democrats quarrel over the ins-and-outs of the spending package and Republicans mount a unified opposition, Mr. Casey told constituents it will come down to getting 50 Democrats on board to agree on policy, revenue levels and how to pay for it — which will likely happen by "helping to unrig a tax code which has been rigged for 40 years for very, very wealthy Americans and big corporations," he said.
It was a notably different tone than his counterpart, U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, a Republican, struck in a Senate Banking Committee hearing this week. Mr. Toomey, serving as the committee's ranking member, accused Democrats of trying to "ram through a reckless tax and spending bill" that he said would expand the welfare state, raise taxes on employers and diminish investment.
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Diminish investment definition: without stock buybacks my investment portfolio won't be as large.
