Showing posts with label Spending 2021. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spending 2021. Show all posts
Thursday, December 16, 2021

Sleepy Joe Biden played chicken with the debt ceiling legislation, waited until today to sign the bill hastily passed in the middle of the night yesterday

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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

The US House passed the $2.5 trillion increase to the debt ceiling in the dead of night with just one, unneeded, Republican vote

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The bill, which lawmakers passed 221-209, with one Republican voting yes, raises the federal debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion to increase the ...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

US Senate Democrats passed a $2.5 trillion increase to the debt ceiling 50-49 this afternoon without a single Republican vote after 14 Republicans voted to allow a one time simple majority arrangement

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Seems like there's not much wiggle room between a $2.5 trillion increase in the debt ceiling and a proposed Democrat reconciliation spen...
Saturday, November 20, 2021

$2.2 trillion Build Back Butter bill Democrats insisted would cost nothing CBO estimates would cost $367 billion over ten years

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            So-called Democrat moderates in the House voted for it anyway, 220-213, undermining Republican claims their votes could be peele...
Thursday, November 11, 2021

Joe Manchin wants to pause before spending any more money since we've already injected $5 TRILLION into the economy because of the pandemic

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 Ya think? Last year's spending was an ORGY, and along comes this guy suggesting we take a break and he's public enemy numero uno to...
Monday, November 8, 2021

Republicans voted for the Biden infrastructure bill despite the CBO's estimate it would add $250 billion+ to the national debt over 10 years

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 Is $25 billion a year a big deal? We're already paying $500 billion+ EVERY YEAR in interest expense on the debt. Nobody cares.    
Monday, August 2, 2021

"two-year suspension of the debt ceiling expired at the end of July"

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Pure gobbledygook. The limit, a facet of American politics for over a century, prevents the Treasury from issuing new bonds to fund governm...