Friday, February 9, 2024

JOE BIDEN - FOLKS, AMERICANS WOULD NOT BE LIVING ON SIDEWALKS IF THEY'D ONLY WORK AS 'CHEAP' AS OUR ILLEGALS!!! - Congress: Joe Biden’s Migration Cuts U.S. Wages and Workplace Investment

DO YOU EVER STOP AND WONDER HOW THE N.A.F.T.A. DEMOCRAT  PARTY HAS SO SUCCESSFULLY DESTROYED AMERICA'S MIDDLE CLASS WHILE THEY BUILT THE BIGGEST MEXICAN WELFARE STATE IN THE WORLD???

 

At what point do we say we’ve lost our country?

Imagine for a moment what the past few years would have been like if the nation’s socialist “Democratic” party and its media propaganda arm had absolutely no limitations on their power.  What would it be like if we just had one-party rule and the GOP was only an afterthought? 

The problem is that you won’t have to imagine anything if President Trump and the pro-freedom right don’t prevail in November, and even then, it might just be a short respite from the Democrat party’s deliberate destruction of the country as founded. 

As much as most people would like to deny this reality, we are rapidly reaching a point where things could be very bad

So we have a situation where a state governor defies the federal government in its efforts to bring in millions of potential illegal Democrat voters, and he’s backed up by several other states...resulting in a civil war.  That was the plot of a movie — a dark comedy — from 1997 entitled The Second Civil War, and it should seem eerily similar to current events.  Sometimes you feel like the female news anchor in the movie, who berated her male counterpart in reporting other events after the shooting broke out in that “there is no other news” (language warning).  If the situation deteriorates even more, it won’t matter what else is happening, because we will inevitably have just two very bad choices.

But first let’s consider two stark realities of what the authoritarian left has done to the country.

Do we still have a country when it effectively has no borders?

Let’s be blunt about it: the authoritarian far left has effectively erased our southern border.  John Lovell of the Warrior Poet Society broached the subject a few days ago of whether we are a nation any longer without any borders.  Illegal invaders are being moved around to impact every corner of the country, not just the border states.

But it’s worse than that.  The “Democrat” party is doing everything it can to encourage the illegal invasion with incentives paid for by our tax dollars.  Democrats are providing free health careprepaid credit cards, and presumably free college to the invader Democrats.

So hasn’t the far left effectively erased the country by erasing the border?  Leftists have lied for years about the border, so should we listen to them ever again?

Do we still have a country when it’s being divided by the fascist far left?

This is a far more subtle but just as dangerous aspect of what the far left is doing these days.  Everywhere you look, they are working to divide the country, from assaulting every amendment of the Bill of Rights to using lawfare in elections instead of trying to win in the marketplace of ideas — not to mention a two-tiered justice system that persecutes political opponents and rewards criminals.

They are dividing the people to make us easier to control, but it’s essentially ripping the country apart, toward an unintended consequence on their part.

Therefore, the case can be made that it’s the nation’s socialist Democrat party and its media propaganda arm that have brought us to this point, no matter how much they lie and point fingers.

So what are the long-term implications of what they have done, and what are our choices in the matter?

The horrifying reality of what is happening was aptly laid out in a piece in The Federalist: “Without Mass Deportations, America’s Demographics Shift Will Result In Radical Politics.”

Going forward, even if we somehow prevent 100 percent of future illegal immigration, it only buys us time — and not much. Democrats know this, of course. It’s the reason they continue to accept short-term backlash from our open border in exchange for a long-term payoff. By pointing out that illegal aliens cannot vote, the left claims that this whole thing is a “racist conspiracy theory.”

This disingenuous tactic ignores three things: 1) Democrats have routinely tried to pass some type of amnesty that would eventually allow illegal aliens to vote, 2) Children of illegal aliens born in the U.S. can legally vote when they turn 18, and 3) In 2020, Joe Biden carried Georgia, Wisconsin, and Arizona by a total of about 45,000 votes, meaning a presidential election could be decided by only 0.15 percent of the illegal alien population voting in the right states.

The author makes the point that the last item in that list of three is a mathematical certainty, so even if the “Democrats” don’t pass amnesty or have the illegal invaders vote, they just need to wait to gain perpetual power and one-party rule.

Just imagine the authoritarian leftists unencumbered by the need to win elections.  We’ve often stated that socialism is defined as “buying votes with other people’s money, taken at gunpoint,” and they are already putting the first part into practice.

What’s to stop them from doing more of that?

The people getting the freebies will greatly outnumber those who have to foot the bill — in the middle class.  What’s to stop them from wanting to bring in more illegal “Democrats”?  The blunt truth is that they are doing this only to ensure perpetual power for themselves — until they run out of other people’s money.  Then the fun really begins. 

So the only choice will have to be, as Sky News host James Morrow has proposed, “DEI: Deport Every Illegal.”

Barring that, we’ve passed all the easy exits, and we’re down to what happens every time collectivism is tried — communism, fascism, Leninism, Maoism, socialism, statism, or whatever you want to call your particular form of societal poison.       

That would be the unimaginably horrible option, and by now you should be able to guess what it is.

D Parker is an engineer, inventor, wordsmith, and student of history, the director of communications for a civil rights organization, and a long-time contributor to conservative websites.  Find him on Substack.

Image: Don Hankins via FlickrCC BY 2.0 (cropped).


Congress: Joe Biden’s Migration Cuts U.S. Wages and Workplace Investment

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President Joe Biden’s flood of migrants will force down Americans’ wages over the next 10 years, says a report by the Congress’ non-partisan team of economic experts.

The Congressional Budget Office “estimates that [Biden’s] increase in population will put downward pressure on average real wages [emphasis added],” said the report, which was released on February 7. “Average real wages are expected to be slightly lower by 2034 [emphasis added] than they would be otherwise,” the report said.

The official report reinforces the vast evidence that migration shifts family wages and workplace investment toward Wall Streetreal estatecoastal states, and government, while also diverting politicians’ focus away from American communities.

The CBO report optimistically projects Biden’s migrant surge will be over by 2028. But it also predicts there will be no long-term recovery in Americans’ wages as investors and government use the migrant labor to absorb a greater share of new wealth produced each year:

From 2028 to 2034, labor income is projected to remain stable as a percentage of [Gross Domestic Product] GDP, averaging 57.1 percent. That projection is below labor income’s average percentage of GDP from 1947 to 2000, 60.4 percent [emphasis added], because some factors that have depressed labor income relative to GDP since 2000 are expected to persist in the coming decade.

The inflow of migrants will be a subsidy for the consumer economy and real estate companies, according to the report:

The increases to CBO’s population projections have raised projected consumer spending over the 2027–2033 period by roughly 2 percent, or 1.4 percent of GDP—and raised projected residential investment (such as spending on housing construction and home improvements) over that period by roughly 10 percent, or 0.4 percent of GDP—compared with the agency’s previous projections.

Many small-government libertarians praise migration, but the CBO noted that the inflow of poor migrants will also help grow government at a much faster rate:

In CBO’s projections, real government purchases grow at an average annual rate of 0.6 percent from 2025 to 2034. Federal purchases increase by an average of 0.4 percent a year during that period. Purchases by state and local governments increase much faster in that period, by an average of 0.7 percent a year, mainly because of federal assistance such as education grants.

Government debt will rise by $19 trillion, up to $54 trillion, by 2034, the report noted.

The arrival of millions of lower-wage laborers will be accompanied by a slowdown in productivity-boosting, wealth-generating business investment.

Four years after the coronavirus shock, that investment grew 4.1 percent in 2023, but CBO forecasts it to drop to just 2.7 percent per year during the 2029-34 period, the report notes. The reduced business investment will help slow the growth in wealth-generating productivity of U.S. workers.

Labor productivity grew 2.3 percent a year from 1950 to 1973 — so creating a vast middle class.

An American family in the 1960s look over the choices in a car showroom.1960s FAMILY DAD MOM BOY GIRL BUYING A NEW CAR WITH SMILING SALESMAN IN CAR DEALERSHIP SHOWROOM (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images)

File/A young American family in the 1960s look over the gleaming choices on offer in a car showroom. (H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty)

But productivity growth crashed down to 1.3 percent per year during the 2008-2023 period, partly because the federal government used a 1990 immigration-expansion law to create an economic bubble of cheap labor.

The 1990 law was signed by President George H. Bush, and the resulting labor bubble was further inflated by President George. W. Bush’s welcome for illegal migrants. Those migrants and their banks jointly helped to inflate the housing bubble that burst in 2007.

Biden’s migration and labor bubble will slow productivity gains to 1.2 percent from 2024 to 2028, the report noted.

The report explained how migration skews the economy:

Increased net immigration is projected to affect average real wages through several channels. First, additional foreign nationals are expected to work in sectors of the economy that pay relatively low wages, thus putting downward pressure on average wages. Second, the projected increase in workers reduces the amount of capital (factories and machinery) per worker, which also puts downward pressure on average real wages … By 2034, CBO estimates, the three effects combined will cause average real wages to be slightly lower than they would have been otherwise.

Still, the extra population of roughly 5.2 million working migrants by 2033 will expand the overall U.S. economy even as it also shrinks per-capita income, the report notes:

greater immigration is projected to boost the growth rate of the nation’s real gross domestic product (GDP) by an average of 0.2 percentage points a year from 2024 to 2034, leaving real GDP [Gross Domestic Product] roughly 2 percent larger in 2034 than it would be otherwise. Real GDP per person, however, would be 0.8 percent smaller in 2034 [emphasis addded] because of the increase in immigration than it would be otherwise, in CBO’s assessment.

A larger economy grows the nation’s pool of profits, which is good for people who own stocks and shares.

For example, a billion dollars in additional profits boosts the value of the stock market by roughly $20 billion. The multiplier effect gives companies an enormous incentive to hold down wages. For example, Wall Street stock analysts can use networked computers to easily track the wages of Americans — such as waitresses employed in Colorado diners — and to directly pressure company managers.

Yet Democrats touted the report for its Econ. 101 statement that migration expands the economy.

Migrants Line Up to Cross Into Texas via Biden Admin’s CBPOne App

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“It is actually completely nonsensical that we do not talk about the enormous blessing, economic blessing that immigrants and immigration represent to the United States of America,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), told MSNBC on February 7.

The Wall Street Journal‘s columnists also rhapsodize about endless imported cheap labor. Holman W. Jenkins Jr., a member of the newspaper’s editorial board wrote on February 6:

My pitch for rational policy begins with a refundable border deposit. Able-bodied migrants without criminal records or suspect associations would be allowed in after putting down, say, $5,000. Profits would leach out of the people-smuggling racket. The money could be used to fund border enforcement and services for the new arrivals and credited against future income-tax liability, an incentive for upward mobility and complying with U.S. law.

In contrast, some GOP politicians are spotlighting the wealth transfer:

Establishment media reports showcased by Google.com also focused on migrants’ growth of the economy.

“Immigration to Boost US GDP by $7 Trillion Over Decade, CBO Says,” declared the headline at Bloomberg.com.

Business Insider’s headline was “The US economy will grow by an extra $7 trillion over the next decade due to immigration, the CBO says.”

Advocates for more migration scoff at critics of migration by accusing them of claiming there is a limited number of jobs. But those advocates usually ignore the reality that wages, productivity, and investment are reduced by the government’s delivery of migrant labor.

For example, Paul Krugman is a pro-migration New York Times op-ed writer and economist. He wrote on February 6: “Even though immigrants as a group are responsible for all recent employment growth, they haven’t been taking jobs from the native-born, who are more likely to be employed in their prime working years than they were before the pandemic.”

Extraction Migration

Since at least 1990, the federal government has relied on Extraction Migration to grow the economy after it encouraged investors to move the high-wage manufacturing sector to lower-wage countries.

The migration policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries. The additional workers, consumers, and renters push up stock values by shrinking Americans’ wages, subsidizing low-productivity companies, boosting rents, and spiking real estate prices.

The economic policy has pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors, reduced native-born Americans’ productivity and political clout, reduced high-tech innovation, crippled civic solidarity, and allowed government officials and progressives to ignore the rising death rate of discarded Americans.

Texas DPS Catches Teens Smuggling Five Illegal Immigrants, Stuffed in Pick-Up Truck

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The policy also sucks jobs and wealth from heartland states by subsidizing coastal investors and government agencies with a flood of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-aided consumers.

The colonialism-like policy has also killed many thousands of migrants, including many on the taxpayer-funded jungle trail through the Darien Gap in Panama.

America’s big corporations want cheap labor. They don’t want to raise wages or improve working conditions. They’d prefer to maintain the status quo of stagnant wages, unsafe workplaces, increasingly oppressive scheduling practices, and countless other harms. They want employees who will work as cheaply as possible, which means they want massive immigration flows—legal and illegal—to continue.

Josh Hawley Slams Biden’s Migration Bill as Economic ‘Betrayal,’ ‘Insulting’

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., questions DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security, in Dirksen Building on Tuesday, November 16, 2021. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border plan is a dollars-and-cents betrayal of working Americans and their families, says Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO).

“This bill is, above all, a betrayal of American workers,” Hawley wrote in a February 5 article for CompactMag.com, adding that it would :

[H]and employers the ultimate anti-worker kryptonite: a shadow army of reserve labor, at the service of companies that have plenty of cash for dividends and stock buybacks, but somehow never enough to pay American workers a fair wage. After decades of flatlining pay and deteriorating protections, American labor deserves better. And a backroom deal like this isn’t merely bad policy—it is insulting.

Americans can have an open border for migration or a fair and level labor market for Americans, he wrote, adding, “but never both.”

Immigration Asylum

President Joe Biden walks along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Hawley is one of the leading voices against the giveaway bill. He helped other senators decide late on Monday to block fast-track approval of the migration-boosting bill when it comes up for a vote on Wednesday — and he will likely speak out as advocates of the bill try to blame the Republican turnabout on the personality of Donald Trump.

Hawley wrote:

At the heart of the new border bill is a radical idea: legal provisions that, after a quick intake screening, would grant immediate work authorization to individuals requesting asylum …

If illegal immigrants could get this immediate work authorization—without fear of removal—we can expect a huge influx of migrants claiming asylum purely to get these benefits. Would they ever be heard from again? Doubtful. And second, the bill would allow employers to slash wages for American workers. Why risk employing an American citizen—who might be a member of a union and might insist on fair treatment—when you can hire illegal aliens newly authorized to work?

His pocketbook politics put him at odds with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which announced its support for the bill on February 5:

We look forward to working with Members of Congress to pass these commonsense measures that will improve America’s security by addressing our southern border and supporting Ukraine and Israel.

Hawley’s kitchen-table perspective on immigration politics is also largely ignored by the white-collar journalists in D.C. Most of the journalists have been trained to ignore real-world outcomes and to portray Capital Hill fights as morality plays featuring good insiders against bad outsiders.

Hawley’s perspective is a minority among Republican legislators. But it is a growing theme that is politically tied to former President Donald Trump’s enthusiastic and populist-themed majority in the party’s vital base.

That pocketbook politics theme is pulling over more Republican politicians as they zig-zag between pro-migration donors and pro-American voters.

For example, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), was picked by D.C. insiders as the Republican face of the 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty. But in 2023, he authored a book saying that “This country has prioritized the importation of cheap labor.”

Migrants walk beside the US-Mexico border fence in Lukeville, Arizona, US, on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. An influx of migrants crossing the border unlawfully around remote Lukeville, Arizona, has overwhelmed US border officials causing them to close the official port of entry in order to direct resources to processing the unlawful arrivals. Photographer: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg

Migrants walk beside the US-Mexico border fence in Lukeville, Arizona, on Dec. 11, 2023. (Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty)

Rubio continued:

Across this country today, the immigration system has been corrupted and exploited. And it began, as many of America’s problems do, with the fundamental shift toward a globalized economy.

But not every business could be exported, which meant Wall Street simply figured out how to import cheap labor, much of it [clarification, not all] coming from illegal immigrants. This was a slower, more subtle process. Sure, some politicians made a big deal about “jobs Americans wouldn’t do,” but otherwise the only outcry came from workers who found their wages stalled, benefits cut, and hours slashed until they could be replaced by someone willing to work more hours for less.

More often than not, it is about jobs Wall Street doesn’t want Americans to do because hiring Americans would require higher wages and better working conditions. To them, it is better to import cheap labor and buy off Americans with cash welfare programs provided by the government.

Hawley’s article shares the same theme as Rubio’s book, saying:

America’s big corporations want cheap labor. They don’t want to raise wages or improve working conditions. They’d prefer to maintain the status quo of stagnant wages, unsafe workplaces, increasingly oppressive scheduling practices, and countless other harms. They want employees who will work as cheaply as possible, which means they want massive immigration flows—legal and illegal—to continue.

Extraction Migration

Since at least 1990, the federal government has relied on Extraction Migration to grow the economy after allowing investors to move the high-wage manufacturing sector to lower-wage countries.

The migration policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries. The additional workers, consumers, and renters push up stock values by shrinking Americans’ wages, subsidizing low-productivity companies, boosting rents, and spiking real estate prices.

The economic policy has pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors, and reduced native-born Americans’ productivity and political clout. It has reduced high-tech innovation, crippled civic solidarity, and allowed government officials to ignore the rising death rate of discarded Americans.

The immigration policy also sucks jobs and wealth from heartland states by subsidizing coastal investors and government agencies with a flood of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-aided consumers.

The colonialism-like policy has also killed many thousands of migrants, including many on the taxpayer-funded jungle trail through the Darien Gap in Panama.


Chamber of Commerce Endorses Lankford Plan to Reward Corporations with More Foreign Workers

WASHINGTON - JANUARY 31: Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., speaks to reporters in the Senate Reception Room in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, January 31, 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

The United States Chamber of Commerce, representing the nation’s biggest multinational corporations, has endorsed Sen. James Lankford’s (R-OK) bill that would reward companies with more foreign workers to hire for American jobs.

The bill, negotiated by Lankford as well as Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and Chris Murphy (D-CT), would increase the number of foreign workers by nearly 20,000 annually who can score green cards to take mostly white-collar professional jobs.

The Chamber of Commerce, which advocates for a flooded labor market where corporations have unlimited access to hire foreign workers, endorsed the bill.

“The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is pleased to see desperately needed border security, asylum, and immigration reforms included in the emergency supplemental funding proposal before the U.S. Senate,” the Chamber’s Neil Bradley said in a statement:

The economic disruption and human suffering wrought by our border crisis have become so severe that Congress cannot afford to ignore these problems any longer. We look forward to working with Members of Congress to pass these commonsense measures that will improve America’s security by addressing our southern border and supporting Ukraine and Israel. [Emphasis added]

Sinema, who helped craft the bill, counts the Chamber as one of her biggest donors. This year, alone, the Chamber’s political action committee (PAC) has thrown $10,000 her way for her expected re-election bid.

From 2018 through 2020, the Chamber’s PAC gave Sinema $3,500.

NumbersUSA CEO James Massa said the bill, overall, will add about 250,000 legal immigrants to the U.S. over five years — in addition to the already five million legal immigrants who are likely to arrive in the U.S. over that same period.

“NumbersUSA stands strongly against the so-called Senate ‘Border Deal’ because it increases legal immigration and fails to do anything to make the border secure,” Massa said:

Despite recent polling that show sensible immigration and a secure border are priorities for voters of both parties, the Senate proposal codifies into law illegal immigration minimums of over 500,000 per year, increases legal immigration by over 50,000 each year, and handcuffs future administrations from reversing the Biden administration’s open border policies. [Emphasis added]

In another giveaway to corporate America, the bill gives indefinite work permits to the adult children of foreign H-1B visa workers. As Breitbart News has chronicled for years, the H-1B visa program is rife with fraud and abuse where American professionals are often laid off after having been forced to train their foreign replacements.

The bill’s provisions to increase the number of foreign workers in the U.S. labor market comes even as President Joe Biden has driven the foreign workforce to the highest level in American history.

At the same time, as experts have testified to Congress, tens of millions of Americans remain on the labor market sidelines. Just last month, economist E.J. Antoni noted that new jobs have “all gone to foreign-born workers…”

“Not only are native-born workers way below their pre-pandemic trend, but they’re even below the pre-pandemic level,” Antoni wrote on Twitter. “In just the last year, a net 193k native-born workers lost their jobs, while a net 1.2 million foreign-born workers gained jobs and the number of people missing from the labor force remains stubbornly high, artificially reducing the unemployment rate.”

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here


Dem Sen. Murphy: We Have ‘Open’ Border

On Monday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), one of the negotiators of the Senate’s border and foreign policy package, stated that Republicans are saying they’d “rather leave the border open and chaotic because it will help President Trump in his upcoming re-election” by opposing the package.

Murphy said, “Well, let’s just go back and understand why we’re here. Last fall, Democrats tried to pass funding for Ukraine, necessary in order to stop Russia from succeeding in their invasion. And Senate Republicans said to us, we’re not willing to support Ukraine funding without border provisions. We engaged for four months in a good-faith negotiation on the border, in part because we know the president needs new authorities to control the number of people who are crossing. And we achieved that agreement that allows the president to shut down parts of the border when crossings get very high, that dramatically reforms the asylum system so that it doesn’t take ten years any longer to get a claim processed and it will now take six months, and it lets more people into the country legally with an expansion of family and employment visas.”

He continued, “But now, Republicans seem to be getting cold feet because Donald Trump has said, and his allies in the House have said, we don’t want to pass any bipartisan border reform, we’d rather leave the border open and chaotic because it will help President Trump in his upcoming re-election. I still believe that there [are] enough Republicans of good faith in the Senate that we can get this passed. And if we do, then I think that show of bipartisan support for the border — fixing the border and Ukraine, can maybe unlock a pathway forward in the House.”

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REMINDS ME OF THE DEMS' PROPAGANDA THAT THERE ARE ONLY 11.5 MILLION ILLEGALS THAT WENT ON YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR WHEN THERE ARE NOW PROBABLY IN EXCESS OF 50 MILLLION. NO ONE HAS ANY IDEAS AND THAT IS AS PLANNED.

These Democrats want the truth hidden from their colleagues who are expected to thoughtfully consider this bill. They want the truth hidden from the President, who is expected to take such things as budgetary impact and cost into consideration when signing legislation into law. They want the truth hidden from We the People, who will bear the entire burden for their actions.

The ‘Border Bill’ deliberately hides the truth from the taxpayers

The text of this new border bill starts out like so many others, with a title. And, like so many others, incorporates the terms “and for other purposes” in that title—and that is where the devil lies in the details.

HR-815 started life as a sweet little two-liner bill called the RELIEVE Act, introduced last year by Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA). On March 7, 2023, it passed the House on a simple voice vote. The bill amended current legislation to make it easier for veterans to be reimbursed for emergency medical care. Then, Krysten Sinema (I-AZ) introduced S-1172, nearly identical legislation, in the Senate in July 2023. No further action has been taken on either bill. About 10% of bills that became law in recent Congresses have been little one-page bills dealing with some aspect of veterans’ benefits.

Now, here comes Patty Murray (D-WA) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to amend not S-1172 but HR-815. The first action outlined in the bill is to delete the entire text of the bill that the House passed. That alone should get it absolutely no consideration by either Senate Republicans or any House members.

I am always concerned about “and for other purposes” and think that only appropriations bills should cover more than one topic. The rest should be able to stand or fall on their own merits. So, I took a look at one of the “other purposes” incorporated by the nefarious Democrats.

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As background, Congress.gov is the website that provides information on all legislative activity. One bit of information that you’ll find on the “TEXT” tab associated with a bill is a link to the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) Cost Estimate. This provides a breakdown of the anticipated cost of the bill on the budget, along with explanations about the bill and how the CBO calculated the cost estimate.

This information is required by the Pay-As-You-Go statute, abbreviated S-PAYGO. The effect is to provide transparency regarding a bill’s cost to legislators and the President. One side effect is that the rest of us get to see it, too. Here is the CBO’s information sheet on the policy.

The new amendment to sweet little HR-815 is being described as a $118 billion piece of legislation. However, we don’t know if that is the new bill’s entire budgetary impact., and if this amendment passes, no one will ever know until the costs have long been passed to the taxpayers of this country. Why? Because TITLE VIII (BUDGETARY EFFECTS), SEC. 3801. (BUDGETARY EFFECTS) of this bill states

(a) STATUTORY PAYGO SCORECARDS.—The budgetary effects of this division shall not be entered on either PAYGO scorecard maintained pursuant to section 4(d) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.

It goes on to state

(b) SENATE PAYGO SCORECARDS.—The budgetary effects of this division shall not be entered on any PAYGO scorecard maintained for purposes of section 4106 of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress).

(c) CLASSIFICATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS.— Notwithstanding Rule 3 of the Budget Scorekeeping Guidelines set forth in the joint explanatory statement of the committee of conference accompanying Conference Report 105–217 and section 250(c)(8) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the budgetary effects of this division shall not be estimated—

(1) for purposes of section 251 of such Act;

(2) for purposes of an allocation to the Committee on Appropriations pursuant to section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974; and

(3) for purposes of paragraph (4)(C) of section 3 of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 as being included in an appropriation Act.

These Democrats want the truth hidden from their colleagues who are expected to thoughtfully consider this bill. They want the truth hidden from the President, who is expected to take such things as budgetary impact and cost into consideration when signing legislation into law. They want the truth hidden from We the People, who will bear the entire burden for their actions.

This must not stand. Conservatives and others who value the well-being of their constituents must vote NO on this amendment to HR-815.

Anony Mee is the nom de blog of a retired public servant who X-tweets at @oh_yeahMee.


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