Good News: Democrats’ Chances of Passing $3.5 Trillion ‘Human Infrastructure’ Spending Bill May Be Dwindling – IOTW Report

Good News: Democrats’ Chances of Passing $3.5 Trillion ‘Human Infrastructure’ Spending Bill May Be Dwindling

PJM: There’s a grudging realization among Democrats on the Hill that Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion “human infrastructure” bill will not pass either the House or Senate without substantial changes. Those changes include dramatically trimming the amount of money to be spent and curtailing the ambitious climate change agenda.

Centrist Democrats in the House want to see concrete measures on how to pay for the bill. Even Joe Biden has said he wants ideas on how to find the revenue to pay for the spending. So far, the Democrats’ proposals for increasing revenue include some form of smoke and mirrors and not much else.

The radicals have dug in their heels and are threatening to blow up not only the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill if the centrists start whittling away at it, but also the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill passed by the Senate over the summer. That spending represents the bulk of Joe Biden’s domestic spending agenda.

The bottom line for the centrists is that the bill costs too much and is being rushed in order to satisfy an artificial deadline. But the deadline of September 27 was part of a deal reached with centrists to authorize the House to begin deliberations on the $3.5 trillion plan. Speaker Pelosi promised to bring the bipartisan infrastructure bill to a vote before then so the moderates would be assured there would be no doublecross by the radicals.

Now the radicals are worried that the moderates will refuse to support the “human infrastructure” bill if they don’t pass the bipartisan bill. read more

21 Comments on Good News: Democrats’ Chances of Passing $3.5 Trillion ‘Human Infrastructure’ Spending Bill May Be Dwindling

  1. They’re going to reduce it to maybe $1.5T, which still goes a long way to bankrupting the country.
    – The media will claim it’s now a reasonable compromise.
    – It will still be chock full of election tampering laws meant to entrench the evil Democrats into power for 40 years. (None of this belongs in a budget bill.)
    Let’s hope and pray the crazy side and the so-called moderates can never hash this out, because no matter what, it is destructive, tyrannical, and otherwise unnecessary.

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  2. @Erik — Another way to look at a trillion is this. Suppose you had a job, and the task was simply to count. Count as fast as you can from 1 on up. If you really try, you can do ten numbers in one second, at least until you get past a hundred, but assume you don’t slow down as the numbers get bigger.

    At normal working hours, eight hours per day, five days per week, 52 weeks per year, do you know how long it would take you to count to one trillion?

    13,350 years.

    No vacation, no sick leave.

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  3. Erik the ne’er-do-well unmasked scumbag SEPTEMBER 12, 2021 AT 11:51 PM

    Hell, I can remember when you’d need triple that weight. Wait what did I just type? I can remember when it was $35.00 an once. Gimme the weight for that one!

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  4. A stack of one billion dollars bills would be 67.9 miles high. A trillion dollar bills would reach 67,866 miles into space.

    A trillion dollar bills, laid end to end, would stretch 96,906,656 miles—further than the distance of the earth to the sun.

    A trillion dollars laid side to side, would cover more square miles than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined.

    A trillion dollars on skids would need to be transported by 478 semi-trailers. Unloaded, it would fill a football field from sideline to sideline, and almost goal line to goal line.

    If you were to spend $40/second, it would take 289 days to spend a billion dollars. And that’s at a spending rate of almost $3.456 million per day.

    At the same spending rate of $40/second, it would take 792.5 years to blow through one trillion dollars.

    Now Times that by 3.5

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  5. Horseshit.

    Now that the US military contractors are not making weapons for export to Afghanistan, the cashflow has to come from somewhere.

    Furthermore, the MUST KEEP DEVALUING THE DOLLAR!

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  6. aren’t they the same people that are against slavery?
    new thing = same as the old thing
    yeah, they’ll figure out how to pay for it later

    pelosi wants her pork park

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