Scoop: Warner warns he may vote against $3.5 trillion budget

[brooklynite]

Source: Axios

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is warning that he could vote against the $3.5 trillion budget package, if more money isn’t added for housing assistance to close the racial wealth gap in the current House version of the bill, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: Warner’s threat is another indication that the proposal will face a variety of obstacles before the House and Senate can agree to a top line number, how that money is spent on specific programs — and how to pay for it all.

"As currently written, this proposal falls short,” Warner said in a statement to Axios about the House provisions on housing assistance.

Warner, a member of the Budget Committee who helped negotiate the $3.5 trillion number in the Senate, is taking issue with the amount of funding for first-time homebuyers in the House, which he thinks is around $600 million.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/warner-warns-may-vote-against-budget-55a7933e-35aa-4c7e-8760-c6510c778a04.html

[msongs]

1. he should do lunch with manchin. nt

[BlueIdaho]

2. So what do you suppose Warner wants?

A bigger office? Preferred parking?

[secondwind]

3. It's in the article.......

[BlueIdaho]

4. Well, there's what he says he wants

And there’s what he really wants.

[brooklynite]

5. So, you're saying we shouldn't trust the word of a senior Senator?

[BlueIdaho]

8. Are you really that young?

Bless your heart.

[brooklynite]

9. No, but I know a lot of these people...

...and I don't tend to find "we know he's guilty" a compelling argument. But feel free to educate me.

[Irish_Dem]

11. That shocks you? We don't trust our elected officials to be honest and sincere?

I have been a political junkie since JFK ran against Nixon.

Trust me, political figures are often dishonest and and disingenuous.

[brooklynite]

14. You know he's a Democrat, right?

[Polybius]

16. A lot of politicians can at times be dishonest and and disingenuous

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Even the good ones.

[Irish_Dem]

12. I agree, I wonder what he is angling for?

To come out publicly like this.....

[PA_jen]

6. Seriously what the EFF is wrong with these Democrats who won't support this bill?

Just pass this bill which is overwhelmingly supported by Americans nd you guarantee your reelection. Democrats need to get their heads in the game before the GOP steels the midterms and really screw up our democracy!

[Hoyt]

7. At least his concern is a worthy cause and would not be that expensive.

Not so sure about Warner making it public.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Making it public is the piece that is suspicious.

[stillcool]

13. I think there's a very good reason why

he is doing this. I have no idea what that is, but I think it's always good to counter Manchin. Kind of like they're negotiating in the press.

[rpannier]

15. Everybody gets in their two cents

Hopefully, this won't be a parade

[Fiendish Thingy]

17. He wants more money to help first time home buyers

If it’s easier to buy your first home, that would increase the markets in real estate, finance, and construction.

Follow the money.

[dreamland]

18. He's a short-sighted Democrat

With a side order of greed.

[CountAllVotes]

19. +1

& recommend !!!