McConnell: Bernie Sanders' Ideology Has 'Won the War'
Republican leader assails coming spending bill Republicans won't be able to stop
Perhaps someone ought to notify the senator from Vermont of his apparent victory.
Because, according to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky), Sanders' progressive positions have “won the war.”
McConnell — who as majority leader during the previous Congress regularly bottled up hundreds of bills from the House, including those that were approved on a bipartisan basis — spoke on the Senate floor Monday, to claim that he is inspired by the ongoing efforts to complete a bipartisan infrastructure plan.
He lamented that the Senate “is fully capable of passing policies that are actually smart, that actually make things better for American families — and to do so with bipartisan majorities.”
By contrast, the longtime Republican leader predictably condemned the Democrats' next priority, a planned $3.5 trillion spending package which is intended to reestablish at least some of the US social safety net which has become frayed in recent years — as well as tackle global climate change.
Spearheaded by Sanders as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, the larger spending bill is to approved under a process known as “reconciliation,” which is immune to filibustering and, therefore, impossible for Republicans to stop.
“This bipartisan work on infrastructure just reinforces the recklessness of the purely partisan taxing-and-spending spree the Democrats want to ram through next,” McConnell said.
He derided the big $3.5-trillion package — which Sanders himself is touting as perhaps the most consequential legislation since the Great Depression — as a “sprawling, $3.5-trillion socialist shopping list, and a huge set of painful tax hikes.”
In reality, President Biden and Democrats have repeatedly assured Americans that no one earning less than $400,000 a year would see any tax increase.
That's when McConnell pivoted to point his finger directly at Sanders, who twice attempted to win the Democratic presidential nomination, where he became widely known nationally for his highly progressive views and policies.
“Our friend and colleague, the junior senator from Vermont may not have won the presidential nomination, but his ideology sure has won the war,” he said.
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