{"id":1228605,"date":"2022-01-20T21:37:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T02:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1228605"},"modified":"2022-01-20T21:37:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T02:37:27","slug":"exclusive-rep-drew-ferguson-democrats-to-push-slimmed-down-build-back-better-bill-masquerading-as-covid-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-rep-drew-ferguson-democrats-to-push-slimmed-down-build-back-better-bill-masquerading-as-covid-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive &#8212; Rep. Drew Ferguson: Democrats to Push &#039;Slimmed-Down&#039; Build Back Better Bill Masquerading as Covid Aid"},"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\">34<\/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-rep-drew-ferguson-democrats-to-push-slimmed-down-build-back-better-bill-masquerading-as-covid-aid%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=1228605&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Rep.-Drew-Ferguson-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">House Republican chief deputy whip Drew Ferguson (R-GA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Thursday that he believes Democrts will now push a \u201cslimmed-down\u201d Build Back Better bill masquerading as a COVID relief bill.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson spoke to Breitbart News as President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook-pm\/2022\/01\/20\/pelosi-plays-cleanup-for-biden-495792?nname=playbook-pm&amp;nid=0000015a-dd3e-d536-a37b-dd7fd8af0000&amp;nrid=0000014f-bdae-dcaf-ab5f-fdeff4d00001&amp;nlid=964328\">said<\/a> during Wednesday\u2019s press conference that Democrats may consider passing the mammoth Build Back Better bill in \u201cchunks\u201d to get smaller portions through Congress.<\/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>The $4.91 trillion Build Back Better Act died in December after Sen. Joe Manchin expressed his opposition to the gargantuan bill. Biden has compared the bill to the New Deal and the Great Society programs.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Thursday that Democrats may pursue a \u201cmore limited\u201d but \u201cstill significant\u201d bill.<\/p>\n<p>This development follows as Pelosi said on Wednesday that Democrats may <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/19\/politics\/omnibus-covid-19-funding-package\/index.html\">add<\/a> coronavirus relief to the larger government funding bill.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Ferguson said that Democrats will try to push their slimmed-down Build Back Better bill ahead of Biden\u2019s March State of the Union address.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re gonna try to call a slimmed down Build Back Better plan a COVID stimulus plan. You don\u2019t get to call a duck a squirrel, it\u2019s still a duck,\u201d Ferguson explained. He added that the federal government still has $800 billion in unspent coronavirus aid.<\/p>\n<p>The Georgia conservative said, ironically, that the Democrats slimmed-down Build Back Better bill would alleviate America\u2019s current problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s the thing, we know if they do that plan, it\u2019s going to fuel the same problems that exist today. It\u2019s not going to help our supply chains. It\u2019s not going to help our workers get into the workforce. And, this excess government spending is going to continue to drive inflation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson continued, \u201cThey\u2019re looking to reward their political allies \u2026 They\u2019re not really looking to help the American family and that is wrong and that\u2019s why the President\u2019s approval rating is below 30 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Passing a slimmed-down Build Back Better bill could pass through the Senate with a simple majority, or 51 votes, but it would require buy-ins from Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ). Manchin has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook-pm\/2022\/01\/20\/pelosi-plays-cleanup-for-biden-495792?nname=playbook-pm&amp;nid=0000015a-dd3e-d536-a37b-dd7fd8af0000&amp;nrid=0000014f-bdae-dcaf-ab5f-fdeff4d00001&amp;nlid=964328\">signaled<\/a> that he could support $500 billion in climate change funding, universal pre-kindergarten, and more subsidies for the Affordable Care Act (ACA).<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) said that Manchin\u2019s backing could be secured if the slimmed-down Build Back Better bill focused more on climate change spending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should take what Joe Manchin said, take the climate and clean-energy provisions in the package that have been largely worked through and financed, and take any other provisions in any other part of Build Back Better that have the votes, and put them together as a package,\u201d Markey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/20\/climate\/build-back-better-climate-change.html\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to the Democrats, he said Republicans would focus on \u201cpragmatic solutions\u201d such as reopening the supply chains, bringing back manufacturing jobs, reducing crime, and opening schools.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson, a member of the House Republican Doctors Caucus, said that Republicans had \u201cbetter\u201d look at banning vaccine mandates if they take back the House majority during the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that the vaccines have provided relief and they have reduced the seriousness in so many cases, but I think you\u2019ve also got to acknowledge that number one is not preventing to spread the pandemic and we see that with the Omicron,\u201d he explained. \u201cThe data is out there to show that even the vaccines are getting are getting this virus. We\u2019ve got to we got to transition from vaccines and mandates to making sure that we have good therapeutics, and then we got the resources that we need to treat the most vulnerable to get sick just like we do with every other disease and every other in every American faces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve proven that in this whole notion of vaccine mandates, telling Americans what they have to do has to come to an end because they\u2019re just wrong,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><i>Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanMoran3\"><span><i>@SeanMoran3<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republican chief deputy whip Drew Ferguson (R-GA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Thursday that he believes Democrts will now push a \u201cslimmed-down\u201d Build Back Better bill masquerading &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}