Holding Children Hostage

As we have reported, Biden's "tear down faster" bill is a massive left-wing wish list stuffed full of $5 trillion in socialist spending and Green New Deal garbage. 

Joe Manchin will only agree to roughly $2 trillion in additional spending, and he's trying to force progressives to pick their priorities. But they won't. They want it all. So, they tried to use a host of outrageous budget gimmicks, and Manchin called them out for it.

For example, one of the most popular items in the bill is the increased child tax credit to support working families. It's also one of the more expensive parts of the bill. But to make it fit into a lower price tag, Biden, Schumer and Pelosi only extended it for one year. 

Manchin thinks that's absurd. He wants the child tax credit funded for much longer. As a stand-alone bill, expanding the child tax credit would likely get many Republican votes, and could be an opportunity for real bipartisan agreement.

But progressives refuse to give up any of their other radical ideas. Nancy Pelosi said this week:

"I don't want to let anybody off the hook. . . I think that is really important leverage in the discussion . . . that the children and their families will suffer without that payment."

In other words, they're holding children hostage to their far-left socialist agenda!