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Posted on 12/22/2021 6:00:36 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Tuesday on FNC’s “Fox News Primetime,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he was not surprised his colleague Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) came out to oppose the so-called Build Back Better agenda promoted by President Joe Biden.
According to Graham, one of the takeaways was Manchin was “telling the world” reconciliation to pass spending bills was dead.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Yes except it’s not a spending bill, it’s a communism bill.
Susan Rice must have pushed off Joe Manchin. Nobody elected her to anything.
Meanwhile it is reported today Manchin and Biden are “negotiating” throwing away 1.75 trillion into the BBB toilet through reconciliation. Dens are barking dogs who leave no scraps on the table.And Linda is a neutered dog who provides them cover
^This!
It’s been said: “nothing is more permanent than a temporary government program.”
<><>One reason why Manchin knew BBB costs $4.73T; not the $1.7T sap-happy Biden quoted
<><>CBO concluded making temporary policies permanent would increase the deficit
<><>a $3.0 trillion deficit over 2022-2031.... above the temporary costs.
Coached by Bidungites, Michigan Democrat (Haley Stevens) claims economy under Biden ‘flourishing
And here’s why......sap-happy Biden stupidly flooded the economy w/ easy money.
Why work when you can steal all you want?
Secret Service: Nearly $100B tax dollars stolen in Biden COVID-19 pandemic relief funds
Biden’s showering $$$$ on those who lost their jobs caused massive labor shortages
AP ^ | 21 December 2021 | JENNIFER McDERMOTT
Posted on 12/22/2021, 4:34:57 AM by blueplum
Nearly $100 billion at minimum has been stolen from Biden’s COVID-19 relief programs set up to help businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic, the U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday.
The estimate is based on Secret Service cases and data from Biden’s Labor Department and the Small Business Administration, said Roy Dotson, the agency’s national pandemic fraud recovery coordinator, in an interview. The Secret Service didn’t include Biden’s COVID-19 fraud cases prosecuted by the Justice Department....
Most of that figure comes from unemployment fraud. Biden’s Labor Department reported about $87 billion in unemployment benefits could have been paid improperly, with a significant portion attributable to fraud....
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Pelosi invested heavily in cybersecurity firm, an arm of the DNC
(Biden’s trillion dollar American Rescue Plan expanded Technology Modernization by $9B)
whitehouse.gov ^ | Circa 2021 | White House
Posted on 12/22/2021, 8:15:07 AM by Liz
Bidens trillion dollar American Rescue Plan expanded Technology Modernization Fund. A $9 billion investment will help the U.S. launch major new IT and cybersecurity shared services at the Cyber Security and Information Security Agency (CISA) and the General Services Administration and complete modernization projects at federal agencies.
REALITY CHECK Nancy Pelosi just invested heavily into CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm that is an arm of the DNC. It was Crowdstrike that claimed DNC was hacked by Russia, but refused to turn over the data and hardware to the FBI.
H/t Erik latranyi
REFERENCE Whitehouse.gov
How will Biden’s trillion dollar American Rescue Plan Help You?
EXCERPT Specifically, President Biden’s American Rescue Plan will:
In addition, the president wants to work with Congress to make sure that restaurants, bars, and other businesses that have suffered disproportionately have sufficient support to bridge to the recovery, including through the Community Credit Corporation at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Provide support for first responders and other essential workers. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, first responders, frontline public health workers, and countless other essential workers have risked their lives to keep our communities safe and functioning. Educators have worked tirelessly to keep our children learning and growing, coming up with new ways to reach and engage their students, often while balancing caring for their own children. Without these front line workers, we will not be able to effectively respond to the pandemic, administer the vaccine, or safely reopen our schools. President Biden is calling on Congress to provide $350 billion in emergency funding for state, local, and territorial governments to ensure that they are in a position to keep front line public workers on the job and paid, while also effectively distributing the vaccine, scaling testing, reopening schools, and maintaining other vital services. The president is also calling on Congress to allocate $3 billion of this funding to the Economic Development Administration (EDA).
Grants from EDA provide resources directly to state and local government entities, tribal institutions, institutions of higher education, and non-profits to fund initiatives that support bottom’s up economic development and enable good-paying jobs. This funding – double the amount provided by the CARES Act – will support communities nationwide with a broad range of financial needs as they respond to and recover from COVID-19.
Protect the future of public transit. Safe and dependable public transit systems are critical for a robust and equitable economy recovery. The president is calling for $20 billion in relief for the hardest hit public transit agencies. This relief will keep agencies from laying off transit workers and cutting the routes that essential workers rely on every day while making these transit systems more resilient and ensuring that communities of color maintain the access to opportunity that public transportation provides.
Support Tribal governments’ response to COVID-19. COVID-19 has exacted an especially high toll in Indian Country. People living on reservations are four times more likely to have COVID-19 and American Indian and Alaska Natives are nearly twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than white Americans.
While the December down payment had many beneficial provisions, it included little direct funding to help Tribal governments respond to COVID-19. President Biden is calling on Congress to give Tribes the resources they need to obtain sufficient personal protective equipment, increase access to clean water and electricity, and expand internet access so that children can learn remotely and more families can obtain basic health care through telemedicine.
President Biden’s plan would invest $20 billion in Indian Country to support Tribal governments’ response to the pandemic.These resources will help to reduce stark and persistent inequities in COVID-19 transmission, hospitalization, and death, while improving economic conditions and opportunity.
Modernize federal information technology to protect against future cyber attacks.
In addition to the COVID-19 crisis, we also face a crisis when it comes to the nation’s cybersecurity. The recent cybersecurity breaches of federal government data systems underscore the importance and urgency of strengthening U.S. cybersecurity capabilities.
President Biden is calling on Congress to launch the most ambitious effort ever to modernize and secure federal IT and networks. To remediate the SolarWinds breach and boost U.S. defenses, including of the COVID-19 vaccine process, President Biden is calling on Congress to:
Expand and improve the Technology Modernization Fund. A $9 billion investment will help the U.S. launch major new IT and cybersecurity shared services at the Cyber Security and Information Security Agency (CISA) and the General Services Administration and complete modernization projects at federal agencies.
In addition, the president is calling on Congress to change the fund’s reimbursement structure in order to fund more innovative and impactful projects.
Surge cybersecurity technology and engineering expert hiring. Providing the Information Technology Oversight and Reform fund with $200 million will allow for the rapid hiring of hundreds of experts to support the federal Chief Information Security Officer and U.S. Digital Service. Build shared, secure services to drive transformational projects.
Investing $300 million in no-year funding for Technology Transformation Services in the General Services Administration will drive secure IT projects forward without the need of reimbursement from agencies.
Improving security monitoring and incident response activities. An additional $690M for CISA will bolster cybersecurity across federal civilian networks, and support the piloting of new shared security and cloud computing services.
Cont at Whitehouse.gov
If Manchin isn’t going to block the filibuster why would he agree to reconciliation for a bill he doesn’t like.
Linda, I wouldn’t ascribe anything noble or eternal to Joe Manchin. Next month he’ll probably sign n to a 5 trillion deficit bill.
Linda found a new best friend.
I nominate Joe Manchin as the new Maverick of the senate
He’s perfect for the title
“Meanwhile it is reported today Manchin and Biden are “negotiating” throwing away 1.75 trillion into the BBB toilet through reconciliation.”
That’s been Manchin’s number from the start...as long as it’s based on accounting REALITY. If we REALLY want no bill, perhaps the 500,000 Trump voters in Georgia, including some here, should NOT have stayed home for Senate runoffs (you know, to ‘teach the GOP a lesson’.
Linda, what would the message be if the Senate were 60/40 Rats?
Long ago, P. J. O’Rourke published a book aptly describing Congress; “Parliament of Whores”.
Congress...
where people spend millions to get a job that pays “thousands”
Who to believe? Democrat Galston of the Wall Street Journal who believes doling out a child tax credit of $3000 to $3600 to married couples making less than $400,000 a year will go a long way in alleviating childhood poverty
or this from NBC News:
“Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., had privately raised concerns in recent months that parents would use their child tax credit payments — a key part of the Build Back Better legislation — to buy drugs, three sources familiar with the comments said....Manchin also raised private concerns with congressional colleagues that Americans, specifically West Virginians, would abuse paid leave time and use it to go hunting during deer season...”
I’m leaning towards deer and meth.
Pot calling kettle black.Congress has been funding the federal government thru continuing resolutions and reconciliation since 2008.
Shut-up Linda.
I’m gonna guess most of that unemployment fraud actually came on Trump’s watch...
lindaGrahmn should just shut up before he says something that fires it back up again.
Sorry, I left off the ping list. See post 18. Sorry.
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