John Harwood, the Democratic representative from CNN, is attacking Marco Rubio for calling the Inflation Reduction Act a “garbage bill” by listing all of the Democratic Party’s pet projects addressed by the bill.
His shilling bill for the bill made no mention of the act of inflation reduction.
Marco Rubio calls legislation that would bring biggest-ever US action to curb climate change, cut health care costs, levy minimum tax on big corporations, and crack down on wealthy tax cheats “a garbage bill” https://t.co/RyUXs3cPRZ
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) August 6, 2022
I am reminded of the time Harwood’s CNN colleague Chris Cillizza famously said journalists don’t root for a side.
The Congressional Budget Office was not able to score the entire bill. What they did score shows substantial increases in deficit spending. This bill may also result in the loss of 30,000 American jobs. What’s more, even Bernie Sanders is acknowledging that the bill doesn’t actually affect inflation.
BERNIE SANDERS on the “so-called Inflation Reduction Act”:
“According to the CBO and other economic organizations that have studied this bill, it will, in fact, have a minimal impact on inflation.” pic.twitter.com/gE9H2cJIgg
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 6, 2022
The Democrats are rushing through the bill and closing in on the Senate’s passage. Harwood will find it very thrilling. For the vast majority of Americans concerned about inflation, it is not so.
CNN.
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