Biden's budget agenda only pretends to be responsible
Fox News
President Biden's infrastructure bill is riddled with budget trickery.
The Build Back Better Act is worse. Beyond the poorly designed, wasteful, and radical policies, the budget trickery amounts to bald-faced deception. Fake sunsets are the worst abuse. Democrats want their provisions to be permanent, yet the bill purports to terminate many after one, two, four, or even six years. They haven’t hidden their intentions. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., clearly thinks that even a temporary extension will become permanent.
Congressional Democrats are applying the same logic to massive new child care, education, family leave, and health spending expansions, as well as a host of Green New Deal-inspired environmentalist subsidies. Brian Riedl with the Manhattan Institute explains the games being played with cost estimates.