Tester says '100 percent' of reconciliation package must be paid for

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: The Hill

Sen. Jon Tester (Mont.), a Democratic moderate, on Monday joined maverick Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) in calling for fellow Democrats to pay for all of the massive human infrastructure spending bill they are drafting behind closed doors.

Tester told reporters outside the Capitol that he wants "100 percent" of the bill, which Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) plans to pass under the budget reconciliation process, to be paid for.

That means Democrats will need to come up with at least another $600 billion in offsets if they are to meet their $3.5 trillion spending goal and get Tester's vote.

"I'm going to be looking at a couple things: Where the money is being coming from, how it's being raised and then how it's being utilized moving forward. We have a lot of work to do," Tester said.



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[Pas-de-Calais]

1. Tester just became de-Tester in my book

[peppertree]

3. But how would he vote on tax hikes on the wealthy and big business?

Because if he really wants it "paid for" - that's where the money is.

[Jose Garcia]

4. He voted against Trump's 2017 tax cuts

[TimeToGo]

6. What about war?

[peppertree]

12. Good to know. Thank you.

Let's hope he sticks to that policy.

[LakeArenal]

5. Okay. Raise that man's taxes.

[Harker]

9. And cut his farm subsidies. n/t

[keithbvadu2]

7. They will be paid for with the increased economy from previous tax cuts.

They will be paid for with the increased economy from previous tax cuts.

They did work that way. Right?

[dsc]

8. I don't have a massive problem with that provided he isn't against the pay fors we choose

which should be taxing the rich and beefing up the IRS.

[Ford_Prefect]

10. How about we cancel the ludicrous F-35 boondoggle. That should do it.

An almost useless, barely flying, nearly obsolete, MIC wet dream which several of our allies have wisely avoided.

A Cub Scout with a slingshot could bring it down. A rookie in an A-4 could drop an entire wing of them.

[keithbvadu2]

15. The planning for the manufacture of the F-35 was ingenious.

The planning for the manufacture of the F-35 was ingenious.

They spread the jobs around many, many Congressional districts.

[IronLionZion]

23. If we don't spend so much money on it, 660,000 Americans would die

oh wait....

[montanacowboy]

11. I used to have a lot of respect for Tester

now not so much - he is part of that Manchini gang who go around meeting with republicon big donors to do their bidding - Democrats my fucking ass

And Manchini is what Manchin's real name is even though his family changed it years ago so they could be acceptable businessmen selling furniture and making their fortune. Guess they didn't think they could be successful with a foreign name.

[totodeinhere]

17. It was rather common during the first half of the 20th Century for people with foreign sounding

names to change their names in an attempt to Americanize their names. My family also did that.

[2naSalit]

21. Mine too.

[certainot]

18. we still have enough democracy these conservadem shits need to point to constituencies so they

don't look bought - and that is why it has been so incredibly stupid, the biggest political mistake in history, for democrats to ignore rw radio - the only medium that can continuously, free for republicans, make the made-to-order constituencies the manchins and testers point to to enable their cowardice and or corruption

[SouthBayDem]

24. Tell that to Henry Mancini

[Mr.Bill]

13. How about in an age where our power grid or water safety

can be destroyed in a cyber attack without firing a shot, we refrain from building any more fucking aircraft carriers?

[turbinetree]

14. Okay lets look at how much Amazon paid in taxes for starter's.....

start there.....

[Justice matters.]

16. THIS

and at all the other 400 greedy never-have-enough-billions assholes too.

[turbinetree]

20. Just makes my blood boil knowing that these people know that these corporations

paid zilch in taxes, and then these same people start hemming and hawing on how to pay for something...its just getting frickin old to hear this same BS all the time....it doesn't take much to look down ones nose to see who needs to pay, either get with the program or resign....

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

19. Even if the money is resolved, Manchin and Tester will find another excuse not to support the bill.

Sinema, however, doesn't want to participate in any negotiations. "It's just too damn much," she says, without specifying which parts she thinks should be eliminated. Glad she wasn't in the Senate when the issue of paying for WWII arose.

[RVN VET71]

22. The house is on fire and he worries about the cost of water

Seriously. Tester guarding the fire hydrant, demanding the fire company pay for the water.