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The weeks upon weeks of negotiations leading up to the passage of a $1 trillion infrastructure bill were just the prelude to the absolute whopper that is the Bernie Sanders budget resolution, which hit the wires Monday morning and will hit the Senate floor Tuesday.
The $3.5 trillion document is a full-on attempt to remake the American economy, the labor markets, blow off our immigration laws, rewrite the tax code, impose a climate agenda, and profoundly alter the relationship between the government, and those it governs.
Among the bill’s highlights:
- Amnesty for illegal immigrants
- Rewrites Medicaid statutes to bypass the Hyde prohibitions on federal funding for abortion
- Universal pre-kindergarten for 3 and 4-year-olds
- Paid family and medical leave
- Tuition-free community college
- Medicare expansion for dental, hearing, and vision
- Expansive climate change programs
- Language similar to the PRO Act, which is a card-check program for labor organizing, making it easier to unionize
- Expansion of the SALT deduction
- Empowers the IRS with more enforcement capabilities
- Does not include an extension of pandemic unemployment benefits