Opinion: Some senators say Biden’s social and climate bill costs too much, but comparing it to the military spending plan they just passed suggests otherwise
. Even that lowest figure just squeaked by in the House and could face more cuts still in the Senate.
But when it came to the largest peacetime military budget in history, all of that scrutiny disappeared. The most controversial parts of thewere negotiated behind closed doors and passed the House mere hours after it was made public, meaning members of Congress couldn’t possibly have read the whole thing before casting their votes.
— Congress is choosing to spend more on guarding the world’s oil supply than on the Build Back Better proposal for fighting climate change . — Congress has authorized spending an extra $25 billion next year on weapons the Pentagon didn’t even ask for, rather than the $20 billion a year Build Back Better proposal for poverty-busting tax credits for families and workers.