{"id":845007,"date":"2021-10-04T11:44:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T15:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=845007"},"modified":"2021-10-04T11:44:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T15:44:25","slug":"never-enough-bernie-sanders-says-6-trillion-spending-plan-probably-too-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/never-enough-bernie-sanders-says-6-trillion-spending-plan-probably-too-little\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Enough: Bernie Sanders Says $6 Trillion Spending Plan \u2018Probably Too Little\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\">24<\/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%2Fnever-enough-bernie-sanders-says-6-trillion-spending-plan-probably-too-little%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=845007&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\/10\/sanders-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said his initial $6 trillion infrastructure proposal was \u201cprobably too little,\u201d and said the current $3.5 trillion social spending package \u201cshould be a minimum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe $6 trillion that I originally proposed was probably too little. Three and a half trillion should be a minimum. But I accept that there\u2019s going to have to be give and take,\u201d Sanders said Sunday on ABC News\u2019s \u201cThis Week,\u201d referring to the plan he proposed over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoll after poll shows what we are doing is exactly what the American people wants. It\u2019s not what the big money interest wants, not what the lobbyist wants. It\u2019s what the American people want,\u201d said Sanders, who caucuses with Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u200b\u200bModerate and progressive lawmakers within the Democratic Party have been at loggerheads over a $1 trillion infrastructure plan and the $3.5 trillion social spending package. The bill as it stands now includes progressive programs such as tuition-free community college, expanded Medicare, and a universal preschool program.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the intraparty fighting, Sanders said, \u201cwe\u2019re going to win this thing,\u201d adding that the American people are \u201cvery, very strongly on our side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers on Capitol Hill were set to vote last week on the two bills, which make up central pillars of President Joe Biden\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>At the week\u2019s beginning, Biden confidently predicted passage \u2014 after all, Democrats effectively control both the House and the Senate, which had already passed the infrastructure bill by a vote of 69-30.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters at the White House, Biden acknowledged his economic plan \u201chas been very much curtailed by a whole range of things\u201d and would take some time, but said both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and Democrats\u2019 budget bill needed to be enacted.<\/p>\n<p>But it didn\u2019t take long for everything to go askew. Progressives in the House vowed to oppose the infrastructure bill if the benefits package was trimmed \u2014 a threat they\u2019d make good on by week\u2019s end. The House never voted on the packages.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has been Biden\u2019s key vote in the Senate, which is split 50-50 between the two parties. But on Wednesday, the moderate delivered a fatal blow to the president\u2019s massive spending plan, saying that the bill was the \u201cdefinition of fiscal insanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manchin said that every member of Congress has a duty to do what is best for the country and not their party, noting that he has stated for months that he cannot support $3.5 trillion in more spending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt some point, all of us, regardless of party must ask the simple question \u2013 how much is enough?\u201d Manchin said. \u201cWhat I have made clear to the President and Democratic leaders is that spending trillions more on new and expanded government programs, when we can\u2019t even pay for the essential social programs, like Social Security and Medicare, is the definition of fiscal insanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, the amount we spend now must be balanced with what we need and can afford \u2013 not designed to reengineer the social and economic fabric of this nation or vengefully tax for the sake of wishful spending,\u201d Manchin said.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said his initial $6 trillion infrastructure proposal was \u201cprobably too little,\u201d and said the current $3.5 trillion social spending package \u201cshould be a minimum.\u201d\u201cThe $6 trillion &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845007","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\/845007","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=845007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845007\/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=845007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}