Ocasio-Cortez Would Vote Against Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Over Climate Change

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53. Which Is Why

1) a number of Senators, on both sides, have publicly claimed the bill would replace all the lead pipes in the country, but according to the EPA, the money allocated in the bill would replace LESS THAN ONE-THIRD of the lead pipes in the country.

2) a number of Senators, on both sides, have publicly claimed the bill would provide "universal broadband" all over the country, but according to experts, there's nowhere near enough money in the bill to provide most of rural America with broadband.

3) numerous Dem Senators were, or still are, unaware the bill:

* STEALS MONEY from the Education Stabilization Fund.

* STEALS MONEY from relief for airline workers.

* STEALS MONEY from the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program for small businesses and nonprofit groups.

* STEALS MONEY from the Paycheck Protection Program.

* STEALS MONEY from Covid relief funds for states and locals.

4) even though presented as paid for, nearly all Senators voting in favor were unaware the bill adds HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS to the federal debt.

5) a number of Repub Senators have lauded the bill's funding of public/private partnerships, without mentioning it's simply corporate welfare, where they build roads, but charge tolls that workers and consumers have to pay to the corporations for the rest of their lives, build bridges and charge tolls that workers and consumers have to pay to the corporations for the rest of their lives, take water owned by communities and then sell it back to them at greatly inflated prices for the rest of their lives.

I could go on, and on, and on...