{"id":569172,"date":"2021-06-21T11:06:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T15:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=569172"},"modified":"2021-06-21T11:06:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T15:06:31","slug":"schumer-backs-medicare-expansions-in-bidens-infrastructure-package-families-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-backs-medicare-expansions-in-bidens-infrastructure-package-families-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer Backs Medicare Expansions In Biden\u2019s Infrastructure Package, Families Plan"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fschumer-backs-medicare-expansions-in-bidens-infrastructure-package-families-plan%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=569172&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>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer backed a push from his colleague, Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, to include Medicare expansions in President Joe Biden\u2019s infrastructure and families plans.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed expansion would add hearing, vision and dental coverage to Medicare, and would potentially be included in Democrats\u2019 proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/16\/chuck-schumer-infrastructure-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reconciliation package<\/a> that could pass without a single Republican vote if Democrats are united in their support of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a gaping hole in Medicare that leaves out dental, vision, and hearing coverage,\u201d Schumer said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSchumer\/status\/1406727995352567820?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1406727995352567820%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fsenate%2F559356-schumer-now-backing-sanders-plan-to-add-dental-vision-and-hearing-coverage-to\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet<\/a> Sunday. \u201cThis is a serious problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m working with @SenSanders to push to include dental, vision, and hearing Medicare coverage in the American Jobs and Families Plans,\u201d he added. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/16\/chuck-schumer-infrastructure-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Schumer Meets With Democrats About Passing Key Infrastructure Priorities On A Party-Line Vote)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7218992\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7218992\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7218992\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233493056-scaled-1.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233493056-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233493056-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233493056-620x414-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233493056-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233493056-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233493056-2048x1366-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7218992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders met Wednesday about a proposed reconciliation package. (Samuel Corum\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Schumer met with key Democrats Wednesday to discuss a potential reconciliation package in order to pass key Democratic priorities to which Republicans remain uniformly opposed. Twenty senators \u2013 10 from each party \u2013 agreed on a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/10\/bipartisan-senate-group-agreement-new-infrastructure-proposal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">narrower $579 billion package<\/a> last week that focuses largely on physical infrastructure, but omits funding for child care and climate change technology.<\/p>\n<p>Some progressive Democrats have objected to the bipartisan compromise over its scope and proposed expenditures, potentially jeopardizing its passage given their extremely slim House and Senate majorities while any package would need 60 Senate votes to overcome a filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the concerns I do have about the bipartisan bill is how they are going to pay for their proposals,\u201d Sanders <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeetThePress\/status\/1406620375883128840\">told \u201cMeet the Press\u201d<\/a> Sunday. \u201cSome of the speculation is raising a gas tax, which I don\u2019t support, a fee on electric vehicles, privatization of infrastructure, those are proposals that I would not support.\u201d\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/23\/bipartisan-problem-solvers-caucus-gas-tax-finance-infrastructure-spending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Bipartisan Group Floats Gas Tax Increase To Pay For Infrastructure Bill)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Schumer said during a news conference Sunday that adopting a Medicare expansion would be difficult given Democrats\u2019 extremely narrow Senate majority. Democratic Sens. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/08\/manchin-block-infrastructure-bill-republicans-arent-included\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Manchin<\/a> of West Virginia, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and more have publicly committed to passing an infrastructure on a bipartisan basis, and have not endorsed their party\u2019s push for an additional reconciliation package.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is absolutely an uphill legislative effort because there are some in the Senate who really don\u2019t think this is a problem worth fixing, and so we have to galvanize support from the public,\u201d Schumer said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/ny-schumer-medicare-dental-vision-hearing-20210620-4va2ukccyrd6hmkhysdwtmon3m-story.html\">according<\/a> to the New York Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>Spokespersons for Manchin and Sinema did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer backed a push from his colleague, Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, to include Medicare expansions in President Joe Biden\u2019s infrastructure and families plans.The proposed expansion &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280835,"comment_status":"close","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\/06\/GettyImages-1233493056-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Schumer Backs Medicare Expansions In Biden\u2019s Infrastructure Package, Families Plan","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233493056-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Schumer Backs Medicare Expansions In Biden\u2019s Infrastructure Package, Families Plan","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569172","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=569172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}