{"id":610783,"date":"2021-08-04T11:21:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T15:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=610783"},"modified":"2021-08-04T11:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T15:22:37","slug":"sanders-if-republicans-wont-support-3-5-trillion-wish-list-then-we-have-to-do-it-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sanders-if-republicans-wont-support-3-5-trillion-wish-list-then-we-have-to-do-it-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders: If Republicans Won\u2019t Support $3.5 Trillion Wish List, \u2018Then We Have To Do It Alone\u2019"},"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%2Fsanders-if-republicans-wont-support-3-5-trillion-wish-list-then-we-have-to-do-it-alone%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=610783&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\/2021\/08\/bernie-sanders-scaled-e1628085795793.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders argued that Democrats should use the reconciliation process to pass $3.5 trillion in new government spending if Republicans oppose it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need structural reforms to improve the lives of U.S. families,\u201d he claimed in a Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/infrastructure-trillion-reconciliation-bernie-sanders-biden-american-jobs-plan-ajp-11628023540?mod=opinion_lead_pos5\">op-ed<\/a> Tuesday. \u201cIf Democrats can\u2019t get Republican support for these reforms, then we have to do it alone through the reconciliation process.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.1473684210526\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJopinion?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WSJopinion<\/a>: The $3.5 trillion reconciliation package is a large and unprecedented piece of legislation. But we are living in an unprecedented moment. Now is the time for bold action, writes Bernie Sanders. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5a0CyrPLV3\">https:\/\/t.co\/5a0CyrPLV3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJ\/status\/1422693795381010434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sanders wrote that, unlike Republicans, Democrats will use <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/15\/senator-ben-cardin-admits-democrats-procedural-tactic-pass-infrastructure-bill-without-republicans\/\">reconciliation<\/a> to \u201cto support the middle class and struggling families and, in the process, create millions of good-paying jobs.\u201d He names programs such as the Child Tax Credit, Medicare expansion, a Civilian Climate Corps, paid family leave, and the DREAM Act as intended to \u201caddress \u2026 long-neglected structural crises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats will likely struggle to pass the reconciliation <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/14\/mitch-mcconnell-rips-democrats-3-trillion-budget-deal-infrastructure-reconciliation-package\/\">package<\/a>, which also includes free community college and universal pre-kindergarten. Democratic Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/28\/kyrsten-sinema-reconciliation-infrastructure-rashida-tlaib\/\">pledged<\/a> to oppose \u201ca bill that costs $3.5 trillion,\u201d and fellow Democratic senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Mark Kelly of Arizona have also expressed skepticism. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/28\/squad-rips-sinema-reconciliation\/\">(RELATED: Squad Rips Sinema For Opposition To $3.5 Trillion Reconciliation Package)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/14\/mitch-mcconnell-rips-democrats-3-trillion-budget-deal-infrastructure-reconciliation-package\/\">said<\/a>&nbsp;July 14 that the reconciliation package was \u201cwildly out of proportion to what the country needs now\u201d after Sanders and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer introduced it.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/24\/joe-biden-bipartisan-infrastructure-package-without-reconciliation-bill\/\">claimed<\/a> that the reconciliation package, which includes what he has termed \u201chuman infrastructure,\u201d and a bipartisan infrastructure agreement have to be passed \u201cin tandem.\u201d Otherwise, he will veto the bipartisan agreement. Far-left Democrats in the House, led by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/01\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-progressives-kyrsten-sinema-infrastructure\/\">promised<\/a> to oppose the bipartisan deal unless the reconciliation package passes the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are living in an unprecedented moment,\u201d Sanders concluded. \u201cNow is the time for bold action.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders argued that Democrats should use the reconciliation process to pass $3.5 trillion in new government spending if Republicans oppose it.\u201cWe need structural reforms to improve &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610783","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\/610783","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=610783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610783\/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=610783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}