Budget Reconciliation Unites Republicans – The House of Representative’s party-line passage of President Biden’s $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package Tuesday is providing a rare opportunity for pro- and anti-Trump Republicans to coalesce against the White House, The Hill reports.
Republicans have been more receptive to the Biden administration’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure program, which includes $550 billion in new spending, mostly for roads, bridges, and the like. The Senate easily passed the bill 69-30 early this month, with 19 Republicans joining all the Democrats in the vote.
•Can President Biden, often evoking Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, effectively reverse 40 years of supply-side Reaganomics? We’ve asked the question in home page debates at The Hustings since the beginning of the 46th president’s administration. For right-column takes on this …
•Scroll down this page past David Iwinski’s column on Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal, to his column, “Progressives Push Another Budget Boondoggle.”
•Scroll down two more columns on the right for Stephen Macaulay’s “The Broken System,” on more IRS funding as a potential source for a portion of new infrastructure spending.
•Scroll to the second column from the top on Page 2 for Macaulay’s “Infrastructure Means Fixing the Roads.”
•Go to Page 4, scroll down three columns for “The Gas Tax is for Roads, for Cars and Trucks Only,” by Bryan Williams.
•Also, Page 5, the second column, for “Earmarks Made Simple,” by Stephen Macaulay, and to Page 7, the fifth column, for “It’s Time for Infrastructure, Not Corporate Tax Hikes,” by Bryan Williams.