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2021-04-05 Home Front: Politix

GOP governor: Infrastructure proposal looks more like the Green New Deal

[The Hill] Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) on Sunday weighed in on President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, saying it looks more like the Green New Deal, an ambitious climate proposal touted by progressives.

"It looks more like the Green New Deal than it looks like an infrastructure plan," Reeves told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s "State of the Union."

"The problem with this particular plan though is although the Biden administration is calling it an infrastructure plan, it looks more like a $2 trillion tax hike plan to me," Reeves said.

"That's going to lead to significant challenges in our economy, it's going to lead to a slowing GDP, it's going to lead to Americans losing significant numbers of jobs," Reeves added.

The governor went on to say that infrastructure is an area in which "Republicans and Democrats ought to be able to come together and do something good for the country."

But he said that Biden’s proposal is a "political statement and not a statement on trying to improve our infrastructure for America," pointing to subsidies for electric vehicles.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-05 02:06|| || Front Page|| [16 views ] Top

#1 His political job is to suck up the bucks.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-04-05 03:50|| 2021-04-05 03:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Four hundred million dollars for Medicaid home health care for seniors to benefit SEIU. Excuse me but what does this have to do with infrastructure or the environment?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-04-05 13:24|| 2021-04-05 13:24|| Front Page Top

#3 His political job is to suck up the bucks.

Remember the trouble Ohio’s Governor Kasich got into with voters for taking Obamacare money to expand Medicaid?

Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-05 14:07|| 2021-04-05 14:07|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't remember that, tw. All I know is this looks like a boondoggle, an extremely expensive boondoggle.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-04-05 14:44|| 2021-04-05 14:44|| Front Page Top

#5 an extremely expensive boondoggle.
Payoff to corporations for their political support.

Posted by Glenmore 2021-04-05 20:04|| 2021-04-05 20:04|| Front Page Top

#6 We like to think of Kay-sick as a joke, but he was one of those guys up on the stage until Trump knocked him off.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-04-05 23:37|| 2021-04-05 23:37|| Front Page Top

#7 don't remember that, tw.

Gov. Kaysich was clever and took the Obamacare money for expanding Medicaid, Abu Uluque, But the money had a time limit, while the expansion was permanent, leaving the state’s taxpayers on the hook for the upcharge. We Ohio taxpayers would have been better off if the former governor had been a little more principled and left the money on the table.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-05 23:54|| 2021-04-05 23:54|| Front Page Top

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