{"id":1558958,"date":"2022-07-18T07:20:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T11:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1558958"},"modified":"2022-07-18T07:20:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T11:20:24","slug":"how-chuck-schumer-could-ram-through-democrats-inflation-rocketing-build-back-bankrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-chuck-schumer-could-ram-through-democrats-inflation-rocketing-build-back-bankrupt\/","title":{"rendered":"How Chuck Schumer Could Ram Through Democrats\u2019 Inflation-Rocketing Build Back Bankrupt"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fhow-chuck-schumer-could-ram-through-democrats-inflation-rocketing-build-back-bankrupt%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=1558958&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\/07\/25982248020_d55ef7238e_k.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Like the script from a cheesy Hollywood horror movie,<em> it\u2019s baaa-aack<\/em>. Democrats\u2019 multitrillion-dollar tax-and-spend spree Build Back Better, that is.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., wants to try to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/06\/17\/dems-manchin-schumer-00040321\">ram through this inflation-accelerating spend-a-rama bill<\/a> before Congress leaves for its August vacation. He may well need to rely on a copious bag of procedural tricks to do it. Consider just some of the gimmicks and shortcuts Democrats might use to get their way in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Flip-Flopping on $5 Trillion in Spending<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>If Schumer wants to start jamming a <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/05\/11\/need-know-budget-reconciliation-senate\/\">reconciliation bill through the Senate<\/a>, he must\u2014repeat, <em>must<\/em>\u2014start with the House-passed <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/20\/build-back-bankrupt-turns-into-another-major-failure-for-joe-biden-and-nancy-pelosi\/\">Build Back Bankrupt legislation<\/a>. He would move that the Senate proceed to consider the legislation, then lay down a substitute amendment containing the text of any agreement he would reach among his Democratic colleague.<\/p>\n<p>That process, necessary due to the procedural protections afforded a House-passed reconciliation measure, brings another twist. By definition, all 50 Senate Democrats must vote <em>for<\/em> Build Back Better\u2014the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/11\/15\/6-ridiculous-budget-gimmicks-in-house-democrats-build-back-bankrupt-spending-spree\/\">\u201ctemporary\u201d programs<\/a> Democrats want to make permanent, leading to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/system\/files\/2021-12\/57673-BBBA-GrahamSmith-Letter.pdf\">approximately $5 trillion<\/a> in new spending over the next decade\u2014right before they vote <em>against<\/em> it. To put it another way, considering any reconciliation legislation in the Senate will first require Democrats to claim ownership of each and every word of the <a href=\"https:\/\/rules.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.rules.house.gov\/files\/BILLS-117HR5376RH-RCP117-18.pdf\">2,135-page bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The \u2018Farmington Feedbag\u2019?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s New York Times contained an article chronicling how Schumer and Democrats continue to work on modifying energy provisions in the bill to appease Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va. Manchin, of course, represents the Democrats\u2019 potential 50th vote for their agenda, but also comes from a coal-producing state and publicly supports fossil fuels. One paragraph at the end of the Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/12\/climate\/electric-vehicle-tax-credits-manchin.html\">story<\/a> suggested the possibility of some old-fashioned logrolling:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>One person familiar with Mr. Manchin\u2019s thinking, who asked to speak anonymously because the negotiations were not public, said Mr. Manchin could support some electric vehicle tax credits in exchange for an understanding with the Biden Administration that West Virginia would be selected as a hydrogen hub.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, Manchin would agree to sign off on Democrats\u2019 spending spree\u2014including subsidies on electric vehicles that many West Virginia residents couldn\u2019t dream of affording\u2014in exchange for the Biden administration selecting West Virginia to receive billions of \u201chydrogen hub\u201d dollars from the infrastructure law.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin\u2019s office, perhaps unsurprisingly, told the Times there was \u201cabsolutely no truth\u201d to this rumor. But recall the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juniperresearchgroup.com\/post\/2010\/03\/26\/a-reading-guide-to-obamacares-backroom-deals\">many backroom deals<\/a> and Cornhusker Kickbacks Democrats used to buy votes for Obamacare. A dozen years later, the senator born in Farmington, West Virginia, could easily receive his own feedbag (i.e., payoff) in exchange for his vote on this socialist spending spree.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Un-Democratic \u2018Wrap-Around\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>At the end of the <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/07\/26\/9-things-need-know-coming-obamacare-vote-rama\/\">vote-a-rama process<\/a> in the Senate, the majority leader can offer what Senate staff often refer to as a \u201cwrap-around\u201d amendment. Schumer did this in March 2021 during debate on Democrats\u2019 \u201cstimulus\u201d legislation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/117\/crec\/2021\/03\/05\/167\/42\/CREC-2021-03-05.pdf\">offering language<\/a> that he said \u201cmakes a series of technical and conforming changes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Except it did much more than that. The amendment\u2014which he sprung on Republicans with very little warning\u2014re-wrote significant sections of the bill. It also added new, and unvetted, language <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/03\/23\/why-states-should-reject-democrats-bailout-funds\/\">prohibiting states<\/a> from using Covid bailout funds to lower tax rates\u2014language that courts have thus far generally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/judge-to-feds-dont-tell-states-they-cant-cut-taxes\">struck down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2021, as Democrats considered the budget resolution that opened the door for them to pass their \u201cstimulus\u201d bill on a party-line basis via reconciliation, Schumer engaged in similar conduct. He offered a \u201csubstitute\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/117\/crec\/2021\/02\/04\/167\/21\/CREC-2021-02-04-pt2-PgS549-7.pdf\">amendment<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/heres-where-senate-republicans-and-democrats-stood-on-controversial-issues-during-the-vote-a-rama\">stripped out<\/a> three Republican amendments\u2014on \u201cstimulus\u201d checks for illegal migrants, the Keystone XL pipeline, and the fracking\u2014that had just been approved on a bipartisan basis hours before.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, if Schumer doesn\u2019t like the outcome of an amendment vote, he will just use a \u201csubstitute\u201d amendment to re-write the bill, removing any language Republicans manage to insert into the legislation. For a party that claims to love democracy, it\u2019s certainly an autocratic way to run the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans should start raising concerns about any \u201cwrap-around\u201d or \u201csubstitute\u201d amendments by Schumer. Senators should publicly ask Democrats like Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., who claim to support bipartisanship, if they will allow Schumer to re-write the bill in ways that strip out successful Republican amendment votes, thereby making a mockery of the democratic process.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Chris Jacobs is founder and CEO of Juniper Research Group, and author of the book, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1645720020\">The Case Against Single Payer<\/a>.&#8221; He is on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/chrisjacobshc\">@chrisjacobsHC<\/a>. Previously he was a senior health policy analyst for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a senior policy analyst in The Heritage Foundation\u2019s Center for Health Policy Studies, and a senior policy analyst with the Joint Economic Committee\u2019s Senate Republican staff. During the debate over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, Jacobs was a policy adviser for the House Republican Conference under then-Chairman Mike Pence. In the first two years of the law\u2019s implementation, he was a health policy analyst for the Senate Republican Policy Committee. Jacobs got his start on Capitol Hill as an intern for then-Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). He holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in political science and history from American University, where he is a part-time teacher of health policy. He currently resides in Washington, D.C.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the script from a cheesy Hollywood horror movie, it\u2019s baaa-aack. Democrats\u2019 multitrillion-dollar tax-and-spend spree Build Back Better, that is. 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