Democrats Set to Spend $3.5 Trillion in Historic Inflation With Republican Assistance

President Joe Biden, and the congressional Democrats with Republican support, plan to spend $3.5 trillion in decades of high inflation.

“Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act will make Biden one of the most legislatively successful presidents of the modern era,” Politico Playbook writers Ryan Lizza and Eugene Daniels wrote.

Despite having a small majority of congressional Democrats in Congress (four members in the House, one in the Senate), Biden was able to pass an extensive legislative agenda. Biden also spent so much in the first half his term.

• The $1.9 trillion American Recovery Act, Biden’s coronavirus relief bill
• The $550 billion so-called Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
• The $280 billion Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act
• $700 billion Inflation Reduction Act

As Politico noted, these expenditures amount to roughly $3.5 trillion and address many leftist priorities such as “the pandemic and its economic fallout, highways, bridges, broadband, rail, manufacturing, science, prescription drug prices, health insurance, climate change, deficit reduction and tax equity.”

This spending is a result of record-high inflation in the United States.

Biden also extended NATO to include Sweden, Finland, and passed gun control legislation.

Although congressional Democrats bear much of the responsibility for passing Biden’s legislation, congressional Republicans often gave Biden the necessary votes to advance the 46th president’s agenda.

For instance, 13 House Republicans and 19 Senate Republicans gave Democrats the necessary votes to pass the so-called infrastructure bill.

Fourteen Senate Republicans, and many House Republicans, voted in favor of the CHIPS Act.

Believing there was no reconciliation bill being discussed, the Senate Republicans passed the CHIPS Act. This ended any Republican leverage to stop the Inflation Reduction Act.

The Sens. have no obstacles remaining. Sens. Joe Manchin (D.W.Va.) and Chuck Schumer, (D.NY), have announced their legislative framework. They are now poised for the Senate to approve the bill. It is expected that the bill will be up for vote this week.

Many Republicans admitted defeat to Democrats because of this failed strategy.

“We got our ass kicked. This is how it works. It looks like things got rinky doo’d. It’s the Louisiana term for “screwed.” And it was a good thing. “That’s how my people back home view it,” Senator John Kennedy (R.LA) stated.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said, “Yesterday’s announcement by Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer showed again that too many Senate Republicans unfortunately trusted Democrats and got duped. Others are pretending they’re shocked. This is not surprising .”

Democrats’ collaboration with Democrats also includes major domestic and international policy.

Fifteen Senate Republicans and 14 House Republicans voted with Democrats to pass gun control.

There are only two Senate Republicans. Rand Paul (R-KY), Josh Hawley and Rand Paul (R-MO), opposed NATO expansion to include Finland, Sweden and other countries.

Politico compared Biden’s legislative success during the first two years of his presidency to that of the president who passed the Civil Rights Act and the Great Society welfare programs.

” There is little debate about whether Biden was a consequential President. His first two years in office may have been compared to LBJ’s when it came to pushing his agenda through Congress,” Politico wrote.

Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.

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