{"id":937198,"date":"2021-10-29T12:29:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T16:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=937198"},"modified":"2021-10-29T12:29:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T16:29:08","slug":"kevin-mccarthy-claims-200-million-for-pelosis-park-remains-in-reconciliation-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-mccarthy-claims-200-million-for-pelosis-park-remains-in-reconciliation-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin McCarthy Claims $200 Million for Pelosi&#039;s Park Remains in Reconciliation Bill"},"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\">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%2Fkevin-mccarthy-claims-200-million-for-pelosis-park-remains-in-reconciliation-bill%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=937198&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 class=\"subheading\">Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told reporters Thursday in a press conference that Rep. Nancy Pelosi\u2019s (R-CA) $200 million for a park in San Francisco&nbsp;apparently remains in&nbsp;President Joe Biden\u2019s&nbsp;reconciliation bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is one thing I\u2019ve never heard pulled out of the bill, the 200 million for Pelosi\u2019s park,\u201d McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/fb.watch\/8WEh2w2jmx\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cThat apparently will always stay in.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>McCarthy\u2019s press conference came as President Biden issued a fresh reconciliation framework&nbsp;with&nbsp;revised&nbsp;provisions. But McCarthy suspects Pelosi\u2019s $200,000 million for a national park in San Francisco will remain in the framework.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi\u2019s&nbsp;donors reportedly sit on a board of a trust that oversees the national park. The Presidio Trust, located in San Francisco, \u201cincludes several Democratic donors who have cumulatively given hundreds of thousands of dollars to pro-Pelosi efforts over the years,\u201d Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/pelosi-donors-san-francisco-park-district-200-million\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi is working with Biden to pass the reconciliation framework into law.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18502642\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18502642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/joe-biden-arrives.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 28: (L-R) U.S. President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi leave a meeting with House Democrats at the U.S. Capitol on Capitol Hill October 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden will meet with House Democrats on Thursday morning to try and secure a vote on the Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill and discuss his multi-trillion social policy spending bill. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1441\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 OCTOBER 28: (L-R) U.S. President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi leave a meeting with House Democrats at the U.S. Capitol on Capitol Hill October 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden will meet with House Democrats on Thursday morning to try and secure a vote on the Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill and discuss his multi-trillion social policy spending bill. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pelosi\u2019s spokesman Drew Hammill pushed back against the appearance of a conflict of interest.&nbsp;Hammill said the $200,000 million is required&nbsp;\u201cto bolster the Presidio Trust, which can be used to immediately tackle deferred maintenance needs as well as continue the rehabilitation of the remaining historic buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese costs are necessary for the park\u2019s upkeep,\u201d Hammill continued. \u201cIn contrast, House Republicans have repeatedly voted to gut funding for public lands and public spaces, as recently as today: voting in the same markup to cut funding for public lands and public spaces from other amendments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/pelosi-donors-san-francisco-park-district-200-million\">reported<\/a> many of the board members have donated to Pelosi\u2019s campaign in the past, including Lynne Benioff, the chair of the trust:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"20\">\n<p>Over $69,000 of Benioff\u2019s donations have gone to the Nancy Pelosi Victory Fund and $10,400 has gone to Pelosi\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, George Marcus \u2014 another trust board member \u2014 has given Democrat campaigns and candidates a total of $33.6 million, with a cumulative $723,000 going specifically to Pelosi\u2019s campaign and the Nancy Pelosi Victory Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus gave Pelosi\u2019s campaign $50,700 going back to 1988 and has donated a lifetime total of $672,300 to the Nancy Pelosi Victory Fund.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A search of Biden\u2019s $1.85 trillion Build Back Better framework <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/build-back-better\/\">reveals<\/a> no mention of the $200,000 million earmark to \u201cPresidio Trust.\u201d In addition, no mention of a \u201cpark\u201d or \u201cnational park\u201d was made in the document. It should be noted the framework is not legislative text and does not include many specifics.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on Twitter&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><em>@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told reporters Thursday in a press conference that Rep. Nancy Pelosi\u2019s (R-CA) $200 million for a park in San Francisco\u00a0apparently remains in\u00a0President Joe Biden\u2019s\u00a0reconciliation bill. \u201cThere &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"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-937198","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\/937198","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937198\/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=937198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}