{"id":1436154,"date":"2022-04-13T18:59:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T22:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1436154"},"modified":"2022-04-13T18:59:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T22:59:44","slug":"pigs-at-the-trough-bill-maher-blasts-bidens-build-back-better-and-government-spending-during-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pigs-at-the-trough-bill-maher-blasts-bidens-build-back-better-and-government-spending-during-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pigs At The Trough\u2019: Bill Maher Blasts Biden\u2019s \u2018Build Back Better\u2019 And \u2018Government Spending\u2019 During COVID"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fpigs-at-the-trough-bill-maher-blasts-bidens-build-back-better-and-government-spending-during-covid%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=1436154&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/9701143B-F2C5-466D-A8EF-F706C30B5203-scaled.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Bill Maher slammed the dollar amount given for President Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d plan and how much \u201cgovernment spending\u201d happened during the pandemic, calling it \u201cmoney that is just being stolen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During \u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/2e4JenTP3prIyddkZbLjbR?si=bjdIqxGiQKiQM7mwGPuyYQ&#038;context=spotify%3Ashow%3A4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk&#038;nd=1\">podcast<\/a> Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/f-that-joe-rogan-says-if-he-has-to-walk-on-eggshells-on-his-show-he-will-quit\">Rogan<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bill-maher-tells-joe-rogan-the-left-has-gotten-goofier-and-dems-are-going-to-get-their-a-kicked-in-november\">host of HBO\u2019s<\/a> \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher\u201d talked about how pulling back on the massive spending by the government is just about \u201ccommon sense\u201d as the two gave one example after another of wasteful spending. It starts at the\u00a01:02:56 minute mark <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/2e4JenTP3prIyddkZbLjbR?si=xC6-4501RICXj1fTm6RIXw\">here<\/a> and can be seen in the clip below.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I say this all the time because the percentage of graft keeps getting higher and higher,\u201d Maher explained. \u201cNow, we found out recently that something like \u2026 20%, I think, of the unemployment checks we passed out during COVID were complete fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PPP \u2026 I mean, J.K. Rowling got money for her Broadway show because if she didn\u2019t she\u2019d be living in her car, Joe,\u201d he added to the host\u2019s shock. \u201cEverybody got money. Tom Brady [got]\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former host of \u201cPolitically Incorrect\u201d went on to explain how in Los Angeles, the price tag to build a house for the homeless is now at $837,000 as the two mocked the idea of spending that much money.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cSo, if I\u2019m complaining about that, again, to your point about a Republican idea, people would say, \u2018Oh, you\u2019re complaining about government spending money,\u2019\u201d Maher shared. \u201cAnd my answer is, okay, but is there any number at which point I\u2019m not tipped over into the Republican side that I can\u2019t complain about money that is just being stolen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI totally, as a good liberal, I totally accept the notion that, as someone once said, you cannot transfer money except with a leaky bucket,\u201d he added. \u201cI get it. It can\u2019t be perfect. But is there no number for which I can not remonstrate against this? Twenty percent is a low. It\u2019s even higher than that \u2014 that was only the unemployment checks. The PPP stuff was even higher.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rogan said that\u2019s why it\u2019s \u201cbeautiful\u201d because the government says \u201cwe need to help these people\u201d and then \u201cthe grift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher gave the example of how California tried to build a railroad between San Francisco and Los Angeles. He said they finally decided to pull the plug when the price tag got up to \u201c$200 million a mile,\u201d calling it \u201cridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rogan then pointed out the famed Boston Big Dig, started in 1991 and finished in the early 2000s, and how he said \u201cthey robbed so much money from it\u201d and the \u201ccorruption involved in that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, when I hear about Build Back Better, okay, look, certainly the country needs to get rebuilt,\u201d Maher replied. \u201cBut I\u2019m thinking always, like, when you give me a number, it just seems like you pulled it out of your a**. It\u2019s gonna cost $1.5 billion. We know that for \u2014 and it came in right at that round number, huh, to rebuild this or something? And are we going over this with a fine tooth [comb]? What if we only spent $1.2 billion, or trillion, I\u2019m undercounting it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if we only spent $1.2 trillion?\u201d he added. \u201cWhat would we be sacrificing? Anything? Cause so much of that money is going to consultants and just syphoned off by all the pigs at the trough all snorting this s*** up with their big f***ing snouts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The podcast host agreed and said there\u2019s \u201cvery few people that are saying\u201d what Maher said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that to me is not a Republican idea,\u201d the HBO host replied.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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