Page 2 - 787 Billion News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

not just when it comes tos it price tag but ambition and impacts. democrats are united in their support. >> this is the most significant legislation for working people that has been passed in decades. tremendous piece of legislation. it will create a lot of employment all across the country. >> getting both senator sandgren and manchin, the two poles of the democratic party on board is no easy feat. but they are united. >> socialist wish list. >> a left of lenin. >> this is a left wing giveaway. >> no republican getting behind the bill, not a single one. 62% of voters support it. no ...

Injecting more fuel into runaway inflation. i know you voted against the bill so tell us what is your biggest issue with this bill? do you think the omnibus bill will do more harm than good? >> julie, omnibus is a difficult word to pronounce. yeah, it will do more harm than good. what we have here is the lame duck democrats at the last minute shoving a 4,155 page bill down our throats. it includes 787 billion of non-emergency discretionary spending. amongst the worst provisions it gives $12 billion to a i.r.s., an agency that is already overfunded and has $80 billion from i call the inflation ...

A day just in interest on our national debt and we don't get anything for that. our interest rate is near zero. we're paying that much money. so most people don't recognize this. when obama passed his 787 billion back in 2008. i was back in congress 2009 did the roads get better and education better did social security checks go out faster? no, but they grew government. they grew the bureaucracy. they grew regulators and that's what will happen here. >> i would say on the way out here. most of the states ended up faring better than covid. they didn't run into the emergencies in terms of fundin...

Bill. $3.5 trillion in this social spending package. biden said it is money well spent but oh, my goodness it's so much money, it's hard to get your head around this kind of a dollar figure. what are your final thoughts on the money at stake here? >> well, if you spend a million dollars a day every day, it would take you almost 3,000 years to get to one trillion. if the democrats are successful in passing their bill we'll be nearly $40 trillion in debt. they have an insatiable desire for more dollars, more taxes. it's a cliche because it's true. democrats in 2009 passed a $787 billion stimulus...

A 787 billion supposed infrastructure bill and it was chalk full of waste, fraud and abuse. we got a lot of garbage out of it. to me as a conservative i want to starve the beast. i don't want more government. they'll try to pass as much money as they can. they are doing a stunning job of doing it. >> dana: republicans could agree more on what they define as actual infrastructure, roads, bridges, etc. a lot of other things in this bill. in the new proposal the biden team is willing to reduce the request for $159 billion that would go to roads, bridges and major infrastructure projects down to 1...