{"id":462540,"date":"2021-04-30T09:16:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T13:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=462540"},"modified":"2021-04-30T09:23:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T13:23:09","slug":"mccarthy-says-bidens-massive-tax-and-spend-plans-make-bernie-sanders-look-like-a-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-says-bidens-massive-tax-and-spend-plans-make-bernie-sanders-look-like-a-conservative\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy Says Biden\u2019s Massive Tax-and-Spend Plans Make Bernie Sanders \u2018Look Like a Conservative\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fmccarthy-says-bidens-massive-tax-and-spend-plans-make-bernie-sanders-look-like-a-conservative%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=462540&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>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Thursday sharply criticized President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s massive early-term spending proposals, comparing the president to one of the most left-leaning lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-bernie-sanders\">Bernie Sanders<\/a> (I-Vt.).<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy tweeted a critical meme on April 29, the day that marked Biden\u2019s 100th day in office, accusing the president of a \u201ctax-and-spend agenda that makes Bernie Sanders look like a conservative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden on Wednesday unveiled his newest spending proposal, the $1.8 trillion\u00a0American Families Plan, a vast expansion of the federal social safety net in the areas of education, and health, and child care. Together with the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that passed with zero Republican votes, and the proposed\u00a0$2.3 trillion\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-american-jobs-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Jobs Plan,<\/a>\u00a0this brings Biden\u2019s early-term spending to a dizzying $6 trillion, drawing sharply critical reactions from Republicans, and even some muted criticism from Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicanleader.gov\/president-bidens-first-100-days\/\">a statement<\/a>, McCarthy accused\u00a0Biden of \u201cbait-and-switch\u201d for promising bipartisanship\u00a0governing \u201cas a socialist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden abandoned his promise to govern with bipartisanship on day one and has committed to implementing a far-left, socialist agenda,\u201d McCarthy said in the statement. \u201cThis bait-and-switch hasn\u2019t gone unnoticed by the American public, with 60 percent recently reporting that they want Biden to stick to his promise of working with Republicans to get things done,\u201d McCarthy added, referring to a recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sfcpoll\/status\/1386287120944443392?s=20\">ABC-Washington Post poll<\/a> that found\u00a060 percent of Americans said Biden should try to get Republican buy-in on his proposals by making major changes to them.<\/p>\n<p>In a sharply-worded critique, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) similarly accused Biden of a go-it-alone approach to legislating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast night, President Biden talked about unity and togetherness. But he delivered a multi-trillion-dollar shopping list that was not even intended to earn bipartisan buy-in. A lengthy liberal daydream that would force American families\u2019 lives into Washington Democrats\u2019 mold,\u201d McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeaderMcConnell\/status\/1387817442366394369?s=20\">wrote in a tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3717968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-461185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4007.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"768\"  style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3717968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2063.jpeg\" alt=\"mitch mcconnell\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/noscript>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) holds a press conference following the Senate GOP policy luncheon in the Rayburn Senate Office Building in Washington on March 2, 2021. (Samuel Corum\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>McCarthy elaborated on the notion that Biden\u2019s policies made him look more progressive than Sanders, telling <a href=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/6250983686001#sp=show-clips\">Fox News in an interview<\/a> Wednesday that he raised the issue with Sanders directly after the president\u2019s speech in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked the senator, \u2018Did you ever think you would be more conservative than the president?&#8217;\u201d McCarthy told host Sean Hannity.<\/p>\n<p>Asked how Sanders reacted, McCarthy replied, \u201cHe looked at me and laughed. But he understood what I was saying to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden on Thursday spoke at a drive-in rally in Georgia, seeking to build public support for $4 trillion in new spending on infrastructure and social programs, calling for corporations and wealthy Americans to pick up the tab via tax hikes.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is scheduled to travel to Pennsylvania and Virginia in the days ahead to promote his spending and tax plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Thursday sharply criticized President Joe Biden\u2019s massive early-term spending proposals, comparing the president to one of the most left-leaning lawmakers on Capitol Hill, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4007.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"McCarthy Says Biden\u2019s Massive Tax-and-Spend Plans Make Bernie Sanders \u2018Look Like a Conservative\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4007.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"McCarthy Says Biden\u2019s Massive Tax-and-Spend Plans Make Bernie Sanders \u2018Look Like a Conservative\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462540","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=462540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}