Jen Psaki shreds Lindsey Graham and congressional Republicans for passing the Trump tax cuts and not paying for them and said that BBB cuts the deficit by $ 2 trillion so Democrats are covering Graham and GOP's "irresponsible" spending. pic.twitter.com/DnIqFsa6gg
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) December 10, 2021
Category: Austerity Porn
Deficit theater
We’ve seen this show, they bring nothing new to the performance:
This is…. silly. It’s $3.5t over ten years. no in one year.
Alternatively…. the Pentagon budget was $703.7b in 2021. Lets say they flatlined that for ten years. That’s 7 trillion plus. Or, roughly, two times bigger than this bill. https://t.co/umDMt7APR5
— Sam Stein (@samstein) September 28, 2021
Finally, an agreement
Sen. Schumer: "Anyone who thinks this bill is enough does not know what's going on in America." pic.twitter.com/orqrHTwjLn
— The Hill (@thehill) December 21, 2020
Congress clinches sweeping deal on coronavirus relief, government funding https://t.co/CTVlCgECJj
— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) December 20, 2020
Pelosi on COVID bill: We consider this a first step and that again, more needs to be done. We’re so excited that that will be happening under the Biden-Harris administration about 700 hours from now
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 21, 2020
NEWS: White House HAS secured tax break for corporate meal expenses — aka the "three martini" deduction — in draft of emergency economic relief package, per officials
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) December 21, 2020
Dems agreed to it in exchange for larger earned income, child tax credits, aide sayshttps://t.co/5qQpiWiame
We have lost so much
Due to the incompetence and willful destruction of the Republicans:
One in six US restaurants has permanently closed due to the coronavirus pandemic https://t.co/UWuj77UI2e pic.twitter.com/tqsMTTz7Sq
— The Hill (@thehill) December 7, 2020
The game plan
Is, of course, austerity. And as far as ‘unserious’ goes, #MoscowMitch just tried to get a goldbug appointed to the Federal Reserve board.
Mitch McConnell rips into the $3.4 trillion Democratic stimulus plan as 'unserious' https://t.co/7ri70lAGhL
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) November 17, 2020
How’s yer 401(k) doin’?
On Wednesday, the Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 943 points or about 3.4 percent. That followed a smaller dip on Tuesday. On Monday, the Dow fell by about 650 points Monday, an approximately 2.3 percent drop.
I personally think that 401(k)’s were just another “trickle up” scam.
Uh oh
Will the Banks Collapse? – The Atlantic https://t.co/uoZxhmgnNa
— phawker (@phawker) June 11, 2020
Austerity bandits
Darling Nikki’s at it again
Funny, how they always get the austerity bug after they give trillions in tax cuts for the uber rich:
Blue state bailout?
Kiss my ass, Andrew Cuomo tells Mitch McConnell: