Build Back Better was even more costly thanks to the gimmicks
The Biden administration’s Hail Mary pass – otherwise known as the Build Back Better Act – dropped like a load of bricks over the weekend, when Sen. Joe Manchin announced…
Democrats and the ‘gimmick Olympics’
The framework agreement the White House and congressional Democrats are (for now) using as the basis for a slimmed-down spending proposal has taken center stage. It’s supposedly more restrained, more…
Using gimmicks to get all the spending Democrats want
The endless congressional wrangling over how much money to spend on a host of social welfare programs has entered a new and very Washington phase: hide and seek. As the…
The platinum coin gambit is no way to avoid the debt limit
Congress has raised the nation’s debt limit through early December, at which time, we are sure to revisit the recent gamesmanship, and doomsday scenarios. Among those was the resurfacing of…
