Senator Joe Manchin on Monday poured cold water on Democratic plans to move ahead on an already trimmed down $1.75 trillion social spending package, saying that his Democratic colleagues are using “shell games and budget gimmicks” to cover “the real cost” of the package, which he claimed could be “twice as high” as advertised.
His continued hesitation to support the leftist spending spree sent Democratic leaders and lawmakers into a tizzy, including far-left Rep. Cori Bush, who ripped Manchin as a racist, misogynistic xenophobe.
“Joe Manchin does not get to dictate the future of our country,” Bush said in a statement. “I do not trust his assessment of what our communities need the most. I trust the parents in my district who can’t get to their shift without childcare. I trust the scientists who have shown us what our future will look like if we fail to meaningfully address the climate crisis. I trust the patients and doctors crying out for comprehensive health coverage for every person in America.”
“Joe Manchin’s opposition to the Build Back Better Act is ant-black, anti-child, anti-woman, and anti-immigrant,” Bush added with a flourish. “Senator Manchin must support the Build Back Better Act.”
Building on her rant, Bush claimed that the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that has already been approved by the Senate and is being held up by radical leftists in the House “overwhelmingly exclude” black, brown, and indigenous communities.
Negotiations on the social spending and climate change bill, as well as the bipartisan infrastructure bill, have dragged on for months as Democrats try to unify their deeply fractured coalition in Congress.
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Like a drunken sailor? Really? That’s what YWN journalism is?
“Insanity” – that term is very prejudicial and demeaning to those with mental disabilities, not to mention that calling the “progressive” Democrats “insane” is clearly an insult to those with mental disabilities. Stupidity is not a mental illness.
Trump spends 6.7 Trillion of money that the government does not have and the republicans totally support it.
Biden wants to spend 1.5 Trillion and to Tax billionaires and millionaires to pay for it. All of a sudden that is called spending like a drunken sailor.
akuperma:
Insane is not a word with scientific or clinical meaning. It does not exist in the nomenclature in the psychology field. It is a legal term, and is defined only in that context. The gaps between insanity (legal) and mental illness or psychopathology (psychological) are potentially many. This becomes a challenge for those psychologists practicing in the forensic realm.
You are correct in noting that stupidity is not a mental illness. It seems to be found in abundance in the liberal circles of academia, and it often is more related to denial of truth than to ignorance of truth.
They are not insane or stupid. Their minds have been poisoned by the evil beliefs contained in Marxist doctrine which they picked up in their university indoctrination centers during their impressionable years, and it has become hard wired in their brains.
so we all agree that’s YWN’s use of the word “Insanity” was incorrect