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Showing Original Post only (View all)Fox News' Chris Wallace Nails GOP Senator: Wouldn't Your State 'Benefit From' Biden's Spending Bill? [View all]
Video at the linkThe Fox News anchor repeatedly grilled John Barrasso on his opposition to Bidens social policy spending bill, noting that many provisions would greatly help Wyoming residents.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/chris-wallace-nails-gop-sen-john-barrasso-asks-him-if-his-state-would-benefit-from-bidens-spending-bill
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace confronted Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) on Sunday over the Republican lawmakers full-throated opposition to President Joe Bidens reconciliation spending package, noting that the bill not only contains provisions Barrasso has supported in the past but that his state would also overwhelmingly benefit from the bill. While the progressive and moderate wings of the Democratic Party continue to hash out the final details of the massive social policy spending bill, Republicans have remained united in opposition to it.
Interviewing Barrasso on Fox News Sunday, Wallace wondered aloud if this was all a political game for the Wyoming lawmaker and his GOP cohorts. As you point out, 19 of your fellow Republican senators voted for the bipartisan infrastructure plan in the Senate. You did not. You called the reconciliation bill a freight train to socialism. You and all of the Republicans were refusing the normal coursethe bipartisan passage of raising the debt limit. So I guess the question to you and a lot of Republicans is are you viewing these issues on the merits or are you just playing partisan politics? Barrasso, for his part, said he supported a lot of whats in the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal but feels it spent too much and he was concerned with the gimmicks that were used to fund it. He also claimed that Republicans opposed the reconciliation package because they want to grow the economy while Democrats want to grow the government.
Turning his attention to the reconciliation bill, the Fox anchor noted that it contains an extension and increase of the child tax credit that Barrasso himself supported when he voted for former President Donald Trumps tax cuts in 2017. Your state of Wyoming is one of the states that benefits most from the increase in the child tax credit. Why oppose that? Wallace asked. After the conservative senator began complaining about the spending bills current $3.5 trillion price tag, the Fox News Sunday moderator cut him off, pushing him on the specific details of the child tax credit. I guess part of the question is could you have worked with them on this child tax credit which you voted for in 2017? Thats one of the things you are voting against right now, Wallace continued. Why oppose that program? Dodging the question, Barrasso insisted you had to look at the entire balance of the bill before complaining that the package calls for more stringent IRS auditing procedures. This is an invasion of privacy, the senator exclaimed. Every senator's hearing about this. That is included as well.
Moving past the child tax credit, Wallace then brought up another item of the spending bill that would help Barassos home state quite a bit. You talk about things you don't likelike the added IRS agents and added IRS intrusion, the veteran anchor declared. Let's talk about another part of the bill which is universal Pre-K. He added: In the state of Wyoming, less than one-quarter of children 3-4, who would be covered in the bill, are enrolled in publicly funded preschool. Less than a quarter. Wouldnt a lot of Wyoming families benefit from universal Pre-K? Barrasso, however, couldnt bring himself to give credit to the president for anything. Theres a number of things that would help Wyoming, he groused. Overall, Joe Biden's policies have been hurting the people of Wyoming. The Republican senator then grumbled that while progressives want to provide free community college, Pre-K, and daycare to Americans, it is not the way our country has been founded.
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Fox News' Chris Wallace Nails GOP Senator: Wouldn't Your State 'Benefit From' Biden's Spending Bill? [View all]
Celerity
Oct 2021
OP
We used to be all about great schools and health maintenance and food for poor.
LakeArenal
Oct 2021
#2
Not recent... but here is a breakdown of RED/BLUE states and how much they get from FED
TigressDem
Oct 2021
#3
Faux newses two journalist don't make up for the volume of lies the rest tell
uponit7771
Oct 2021
#7
IDK... It is kind of satisfying when their OWNED KNEWS agency turns against them.
TigressDem
Oct 2021
#11