McConnell: $800B infrastructure package acceptable

thehill ^ | 05/10/2021 | Dominick Mastrangelo

[Yo-Yo]

It’s not the price tag as much as what the projects are. If we’re rebuilding crumbling roads and unsafe bridges, fine. If we’re building cysgendered nurturing safe-space halfway houses, no thank you.

[BiteYourSelf]

We know what you are Mitch all you’re doing is haggling on the price.🤮

[BiteYourSelf]

This.🙄

[Wuli]

While the dollar figure is important (my figure would be no more than $600 billion spread in declining amounts over six years, averaging no more than an average $100 billion a year to the budget), no dollar figure is more important than how the money is directed, how much of it is not “infrastructure” and what strings come with it.

The massively worst two parts of Biden’s proposal is (a) at least half has zero to do with infrastructure, and (b) all of it has political mandates converted critical race theory into managing how every federal infrastructure dollar is spent. For every single environmental mental lawyer federal infrastructure spending is now done, we will need two lawyers demanding and judging how each project conforms to the critical race theory mandates that federal law will demand. Plan on a “civil rights” division of the DOJ being twice it’s present size.

McConnel and the Senate GOP should vote no on any Biden “infrastructure” bill, no matter the dollar amount, beause the long term purpose of ANY infrastructure bill Biden puts forward, is now and will be, transformation of federal law in the area of federal infrastructure spending to insert critical race theory mandates as permanent, fixed, features of the law, long after the current budgeted dollars are spent.

THAT is the true “bait and switch” going on and it is bigger, in importance than any dollar amount. I think McConnel has his head in the sand on this.