Economist Warns of Inflation Crisis That Will Hurt All of Us, Fueled by Congress' $4.5 Trillion Spending
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- $600,000 in debt.
What's that?
That's what a child born today
will pay over his or her lifetime
on account of the president'soutrageous $5 trillion budget.
Moderate Democrats don'tlike the high price tag.
But Chuck Schumer is behind every part
of the what he calls thebig, bold, robust way.
Not one Republican supports it.
So what happens next?
Here's Capitol Hillcorrespondent Abigail Robertson.
- Moderate Senate Democrats hope
to convince their colleagues
to cut the multi-trilliondollar budget bill
before they commit their support.
While Senate majorityleader Chuck Schumer vows
to keep all of President Biden's agenda
in the final product.
- It will have everypart of the Biden plan
in a big, bold, robust way.
- [Abigail] Democraticsocialist Bernie Sanders,
Senate Budget Chairman,
exerted major influence on the bill.
- It really is the mostprogressive priorities we've seen
out of the Democrat Partyput into one proposal.
- [Abigail] Connor Semelsberger
from the Family ResearchCouncil says this bill
is not what families want.
- It really is this liberal wishlist
that is couched in this languagefor being about families
when in actuality,
it's really what liberal elites,
many of which don'thave children themselves
are dictating for the rest of the country.
- [Abigail] Semelsbergersays Senator Joe Manchin
helped Republicans take an important step
in preventing taxpayer fundsfrom paying for abortions.
- Senator Lankford workedwith his colleagues
across the aisle, and actuallygot an amendment added
to this budget resolution,
which reaffirmed the Hyde Amendment
and then the Weldon Amendment,
which protects the consciencesof healthcare professionals
to not perform abortions.
- [Abigail] Economist Stephen Moore
told CBN News's Faith Nation
he's aghast at how much money
the US government plans to borrow.
- This is a gigantic amount of money.
Each child born today, if this passes,
will pay $600,000 indebt over their lifetime.
I have nothing good to say about this.
That we should be saving moneyright now, not spending it.
- [Abigail] And fears if this becomes law,
it will cause a financial crisis.
- I am very worried about inflation,
especially if they pass,
look, if you pass another $4.5 trillion
of debt borrowing,
that's gonna be financedby printing more money.
And when you print more money,
that means more inflation.
- As House Democrats prepare
to take up the Budget Reconciliation Bill,
there's a chance the pricetag could go even higher,
and they may remove Senator Lankford's
pro-life protections too.
Pat.
- Abigail, give us asense of the timeline.
What happens next and whatelse do they have to do
before that bill becomes final?
- Well, it's important to know
that what the Senate passed this week
is really just the first step
in the budget reconciliation process.
And it's just a framework.
So this is now moving on to the House
that's going to reconvene August 23rd,
and when they come back,
they're going to fill in the details
of some of the thingsthat Senate Democrats want
to see in the bill,
the White House wants to see in the bill,
and they're going to merge that
with some of the budget plansthat House Democrats have,
and as this process plays out,
we can expect to see probablysome pretty public battles
between moderate House Democrats
and progressive HouseDemocrats who both know,
in a very slim Democraticmajority in the House,
that their votes are incredibly important.
That their votes matter.
And moderate Democrats wannabring the price tag down,
while the progressive Democratswant a little more spending
for some more programs.
So it's going to be very interesting
to see how House Speaker Nancy Pelosi goes
about handling this toget everyone in line
because they can just lose a few votes
in order to get this passed
but I think we'll see thefinal product some time
in the early fall.
- Are Manchin and Sinemaare going to be for it
or against it in the Senate, do you know?
- This is the big question.
Both of those senators
are in their home districts right now.
They're gonna hear a lotfrom their constituents
about how they feel
and both of them have very publicly,
since taking that vote earlier this week,
come out and said that theyare incredibly uncomfortable
with the $3.5 price tag,
and they're going to try to get,
they're gonna use negotiating power
to try and get theircolleagues to make cuts.
But as I said, when thisbill hits the House,
the price tag could go even higher.
But they are crucial votes,
and as you said, every senator needs
to be in line, everyDemocratic senator needs
to be in line in supporting this bill
in order for it to hitPresident Biden's desk.
And at the end of the day,
they will have negotiating power
but I think it's very unlikely
that either of them vote again it
because it really is the heartof President Biden's agenda.
- I don't wanna belabor the point
but this is 3.5 trillion
but they're gonna addanother three trillion.
It's gonna go five, six, seven trillion
before they've finished.
Am I right on that?
- Well, so some of the estimates
are saying that right nowit looks like 3.5 trillion
but over time, it actually could be closer
to the numbers you'rementioning, five trillion,
because once theseprograms are put in place,
Republicans and Democrats know
that they are almostimpossible to scale back.
So these are programs
that once the bill puts them in,
we will likely have them forthe rest of our government.
And they could get veryexpensive over time,
and the price tag could get much higher
than what's being predicted right now.
- Abigail, thanks for your.