On Thursday afternoon, CNN cheered Vice President Kamala Harris swearing in the three new Democratic senators. Anchor Erin Burnett and left-wing pundit Bakari Sellers wasted no time to start gushing over the diversity that these new members bring to the United States Senate not a diversity of fresh ideas, of course, just a difference in how they look.
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these metrics that are fun to tout in a headline, but don t change the real lives of people living on the ground. and i want to focus on making sure we have educational attainment, educational mobility, that we have economic mobility and social mobility, so our families are moving up and they can meet these new pressures with the incomes and the opportunities that can make their lives thrive. will you be inviting the president on the trail to campaign with you? i think that joe biden, john osoff and raphael warnock have been delivering for georgia. we re seeing an infusion of capital into our state that will help infrastructure issues, tackling child poverty. we need to have a partner in the gov governor s mansion who believes in making sure the state and the resources are reaching all georgians. rather than picking people that agree with me, want to serve every georgian. and make certain we have one georgia, and, yes, i look forward to having anyone who is willing to invest in the
But for the reconciliation strategy to succeed, Democrats have to remain united. At the moment, the feat may be impossible unless the package is paid for without borrowing new money and increasing the federal deficit.
“Everything should be paid for. How much more debt can y’all handle?” said Sen. Joe Manchin III the West Virginia Democrat who is often the key swing vote in the chamber. “I think we’ve incurred over $28.5 trillion of debt and I’d like to start paying for things.”
The easiest way to meet the goal or at least come close is to boost revenue by jettisoning the Trump-era tax cuts. Mr. Manchin himself suggested the idea last month, telling ABC’s “This Week” he was ready to “step forward” on the issue.
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