The Socialist Freight Train Rolls On

Senate Democrats didn’t waste any time after they passed a $1.1 trillion infrastructure bill with the help of 17 Republican senators. Within hours they passed a resolution, this one on a party line vote, to direct Senate committees to begin work filling in details on a $3.5 trillion “soft infrastructure” bill. Make no mistake about it, this larger package is pure socialism and left-wing social engineering that would hasten the morphing of the U.S. into Venezuela.

The smaller $1.1 trillion legislation has been sent to Nancy Pelosi’s House of Representatives. She has made it clear that she won’t vote on it unless the $3.5 trillion package is also passed. The “progressive caucus” led by members like AOC and Ilhan Omar have also made it clear they won’t vote for the $1.1 trillion bill unless the $3.5 trillion bill includes all their socialist plans as well as the “green new deal.”

Anyone who thinks President Biden will resist the pressure to go even further toward the far left hasn’t been paying attention. The GOP senators who thought that passing the $1.1 trillion bill would make it harder for the left to pass the $3.5 trillion bill could end up with egg on their faces. But of course it will be America that pays the ultimate price for their miscalculation.