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applegrove

(118,629 posts) Sun Sep 19, 2021, 06:35 PM Sep 2021

Manchin Wants to Delay Big Spending Package (Two articles)

Build Back Better' would bring 4 million jobs. It's up to Congress, this week in the war on workers

Sep 18, 2021 6:55pm Eastern Daylight Time

by Laura Clawson, Daily Kos Staff

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/18/2051174/--Build-Back-Better-would-bring-4-million-jobs-It-s-up-to-Congress-this-week-in-the-war-on-workers

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Sen. Joe Manchin and just about every Republican—probably every single one, once the counting is done—are opposed to investing $3.5 trillion over a decade in revitalizing U.S. infrastructure. But let’s be clear: with that, they’re opposed to creating jobs.

Here’s the Economic Policy Institute’s analysis of the jobs impact: “Combined, the [Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act] and budget reconciliation package would provide fiscal support for more than 4 million jobs per year, on average, over the course of the 10-year budgeting window, through direct spending and increased indirect demand in related industries.”

But the combined number covers over the much larger impact of the reconciliation package: “On its own, the IIJA will provide fiscal support for 772,400 jobs per year, or 19% of the total jobs supported by the combined package. In comparison, the budget reconciliation is expected to support more than 3.2 million jobs per year, or 81% of the total jobs. The budget reconciliation’s outsize economic impact flows from its more significant financial commitment to public investments.”

Manufacturing would get 556,000 jobs.

Construction would get 312,000 jobs.

The reconciliation package’s investments in caregiving would mean 1.1 million jobs.

Investments in fighting climate change and protecting the environment would mean 763,000 jobs.

So tell us again, Joe, how slashing the plan to ribbons is being fiscally responsible.

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Manchin Wants to Delay Big Spending Package

September 19, 2021 at 5:07 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 243 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/09/19/manchin-wants-to-delay-big-spending-package/

“Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is privately saying he thinks Congress should take a ‘strategic pause’ until 2022 before voting on President Biden’s $3.5 trillion social-spending package,” Axios reports.

“Any delay on the Democrat-only reconciliation package could imperil House passage of the separate $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, which Pelosi has promised to pass by Sept. 27.”

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Applegrove:

Sounds like Manchin is helping the GOP not have to run on destroying the BBB $3.5 Billion infrastructure plan in the 2022 midterm elections. Seriously is he a Republican? I hope Dems run on the infrastructure plan in 2022. The ads write themselves. Democrats could stand in front if local bridges and make speeches.