{"id":1017550,"date":"2021-11-16T00:28:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T05:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1017550"},"modified":"2021-11-16T00:28:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T05:28:44","slug":"exclusive-tom-cotton-senate-republicans-will-make-any-build-back-better-votes-painful-for-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-tom-cotton-senate-republicans-will-make-any-build-back-better-votes-painful-for-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u2014 Tom Cotton: Senate Republicans Will Make Any \u2018Build Back Better\u2019 Votes Painful for Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-tom-cotton-senate-republicans-will-make-any-build-back-better-votes-painful-for-democrats%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1017550&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that he and other Senate Republicans will not let the Democrats easily pass any \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d (BBB) multi-trillion-dollar bill without a fight.<\/p>\n<p>While fundraising and campaigning for GOP candidates ahead of the 2022 midterms in Iowa last week, Cotton told Breitbart News that if the Democrats bring the Biden agenda bill up for a U.S. Senate vote, then the Republicans in the Senate have the ability to force what is called a \u201cvote-a-rama\u201d where they can force as many amendment votes as they want. Cotton previewed some planned amendments to make life difficult for Democrats, in which he and other Republicans will push measures designed to target President Joe Biden\u2019s and the Justice Department\u2019s decision to give out $450,000 settlement checks to illegal aliens separated at the border from their families due to former President Donald Trump\u2019s strict immigration enforcement measures.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI will say this, that if the Democrats move forward with this massive spending bill, we will have an opportunity to offer a lot of amendments to that bill and I look forward to some of the vulnerable Democratic senators up for election next year taking a vote on this very question,\u201d Cotton said. \u201cI can assure you they will be forced to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can have as many amendments as we want for as long as we want, and let\u2019s just say we have a lot to get off our chests,\u201d Cotton added. \u201cIf they move forward with this reckless spending plan, there is no doubt we will force them to vote on amendments that, for example, would block these kinds of collusive lawsuit settlements for illegal migrants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This threat from Cotton comes after Biden signed his \u201cBipartisan Infrastructure Framework\u201d (BIF) into law on Monday at a ceremony at the White House. That plan was pitched to the public as \u201cinfrastructure,\u201d but in reality, it contains very little real \u201cinfrastructure\u201d dollars and much more radical leftist spending priorities as Breitbart News has reported.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18479370\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/joe-biden-build-back-better-point-oct25-21-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18479370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/joe-biden-build-back-better-point-oct25-21-getty.jpg\" alt=\"KEARNY, NEW JERSEY - OCTOBER 25: U.S. President Joe Biden gives a speech on his Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal and Build Back Better Agenda at the NJ Transit Meadowlands Maintenance Complex on October 25, 2021 in Kearny, New Jersey. On Thursday during a CNN Town Hall, President Joe Biden announced that a deal to pass major infrastructure and social spending measures was close to being done. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also announced on Sunday that she expects Democrats to have an &quot;agreement&quot; on a framework for the social safety net plan and a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill in the next week.The reconciliation package, which was slated at first to cost $3.5 Trillion, would still be the biggest support to expanding education, health care and child care support, and also help to fight the climate crisis as well as make further investments in infrastructure. Congress still needs to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill by October 31 before the extension of funding for surface transportation expires. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Joe Biden gives a speech on his Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal and Build Back Better Agenda at the NJ Transit Meadowlands Maintenance Complex on October 25, 2021, in Kearny, New Jersey. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While some establishment Republicans did vote for the first element of the Biden \u201cinfrastructure\u201d agenda in both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House \u2014 the bill Biden signed into law Monday \u2014 no Republicans are expected to back this second plan, and Democrats will need to hold their entire conference together to get it through the Senate. In the House, Democrats can only afford to lose a handful of votes given the slim majority House Speaker Nancy Pelosi enjoys.<\/p>\n<p>The White House says the second plan costs just $1.75 trillion \u2014 several trillion less than the original $3.5 trillion goal \u2014 but there are concerns, even among some Democrats, that the Biden administration and congressional Democrat leaders are using gimmicks to make it seem like it costs less. Some independent analyses have shown the plan costs more than $4 trillion if all the programs in it are funded indefinitely, and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is expected to release a formal estimate by the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p>To get hard-left progressive Democrats to drop their opposition to passing BIF without already passing BBB \u2014 they viewed the BIF as a bargaining chip to force self-proclaimed \u201cmoderates\u201d in their conference to back the even more radical broader agenda \u2014 Pelosi promised House action on BBB by this week. However, a statement several of those \u201cmoderates\u201d released says their support hinges on CBO\u2019s analysis of the bill matching the White House \u2014 an unlikely outcome given the economic chicanery Democrats employed to get the top line number lower \u2014 and the looming formal estimate could derail action even further, pushing negotiations past Thanksgiving into December.<\/p>\n<p>If and when a bill passes the U.S. House, it would then need to go through the U.S. Senate as well before Biden could sign it into law \u2014 and because of the use of a budget gimmick trick known as \u201creconciliation,\u201d Democrats can technically pass the bill through the Senate along partisan lines with just 50 votes avoiding a GOP filibuster. In the event of a 50-50 tie, Vice President Kamala Harris could cast the tie-breaking vote. But to get there, the White House and congressional Democrat leaders need to hold their entire caucus together and cannot afford any defectors. That\u2019s why what Cotton is talking about here is so important: the more painful the process, the more likely a defector emerges \u2014 and the longer this takes, especially if it is not done by the end of the calendar year, the less likely a bill ever passes at all.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Imagine Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Cathy Cortez-Masto (D-NV), Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), and Michael Bennet (D-CO) \u2014 among others \u2014 being forced to choose between handing out taxpayer-funded payments to illegal aliens or to families of American military members killed in the line of duty. Or those same Democrats being forced to make other tough choices. Maybe they will choose to sell out their constituents to foreign lawbreakers for a radical agenda, maybe they will not, but either way, the campaign ads write themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton said that in battleground Iowa \u2014 where recent polling has shown Trump trouncing Biden in a hypothetical rematch, and a vulnerable Democrat Rep. Cindy Axne (D-IA) walks the plank toward 2022, and Republicans aim to retain two other competitive House seats and a U.S. Senate seat \u2014 he constantly hears about the $450,000 payments Biden\u2019s Justice Department is handing out to illegal aliens.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18486386\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/10\/build-back-nancy-pelosi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18486386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/build-back-nancy-pelosi-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 20: U.S. Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks as she joins religious leaders during a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol October 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. Speaker Pelosi spoke at the news conference to discuss President Biden\u2019s Build Back Better agenda. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)\" width=\"684\" height=\"513\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks as she joins religious leaders during a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol October 20, 2021, in Washington, DC. Speaker Pelosi spoke at the news conference to discuss President Biden\u2019s Build Back Better agenda. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cOne thing I just heard at this lunch, for instance, was people repeatedly bringing up Joe Biden\u2019s insane proposal to give $450,000 checks to illegal migrants,\u201d Cotton told Breitbart News on Friday afternoon. \u201cBecause of Trump-era policies, we only give $100,000 to soldiers who are killed in the line of duty. There is just astonishment that our border is still totally wide open. Honestly, it\u2019s only going to get more wide open if we give these kinds of payments to illegal migrants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Biden was first asked about the payments, he denied it was happening \u2014 but then later he found out that the Justice Department was in fact making them at the urging of leftist organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was funny to watch Joe Biden\u2019s evolution, if you will, on this question,\u201d Cotton said. \u201cI\u2019ve been saying this about him. He\u2019s been around politics for 50 years or so, so when he was asked at a press conference about these payments to illegal migrants, he could immediately sense it. This is radioactively unpopular, \u2018I should deny that it\u2019s happening.\u2019 And then he walked out of that press conference, and I think his staff had said, \u2018actually, sir, this is happening.\u2019 \u2026 There\u2019s no doubt that it\u2019s the result of collective lawsuits by the ACLU against all their probably fellow former co-workers that they still run the Department of Justice, that are going to give away millions and millions of tax dollars to people who have no right to be here in the first place. Isn\u2019t it funny that they can\u2019t find the illegals to deport them, but they can find them to give them half-million-dollar checks?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cotton added that instead of paying settlements like this to illegal aliens, the government should be paying more to families of Americans who lost loved ones to crimes committed by illegal aliens and to families of American servicemen and women killed in uniform overseas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is the reparations for families who have lost a loved one due to illegal immigrant crime?\u201d Cotton said. \u201cWhere are the reparations for families who have lost a loved one due to a drug overdose from drugs that came in from Mexico? How can the Biden administration spend more than four times the money that we spend on our dead soldiers to pay reparations to illegal aliens? It\u2019s just \u2014 they\u2019re crazed, blinkered ideologues.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. 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