Fox News' Chris Wallace Nails GOP Senator: Wouldn't Your State 'Benefit From' Biden's Spending Bill?

[Celerity]

Video at the link

The Fox News anchor repeatedly grilled John Barrasso on his opposition to Biden’s social policy spending bill, noting that many provisions would greatly help Wyoming residents.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/chris-wallace-nails-gop-sen-john-barrasso-asks-him-if-his-state-would-benefit-from-bidens-spending-bill

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace confronted Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) on Sunday over the Republican lawmaker’s full-throated opposition to President Joe Biden’s reconciliation spending package, noting that the bill not only contains provisions Barrasso has supported in the past but that his state would also overwhelmingly “benefit” from the bill. While the progressive and moderate wings of the Democratic Party continue to hash out the final details of the massive social policy spending bill, Republicans have remained united in opposition to it.

Interviewing Barrasso on Fox News Sunday, Wallace wondered aloud if this was all a political game for the Wyoming lawmaker and his GOP cohorts. “As you point out, 19 of your fellow Republican senators voted for the bipartisan infrastructure plan in the Senate. You did not. You called the reconciliation bill a freight train to socialism. You and all of the Republicans were refusing the normal course—the bipartisan passage of raising the debt limit. So I guess the question to you and a lot of Republicans is are you viewing these issues on the merits or are you just playing partisan politics?” Barrasso, for his part, said he supported a lot of what’s in the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal but feels “it spent too much” and he was concerned “with the gimmicks that were used to fund it.” He also claimed that Republicans opposed the reconciliation package because they “want to grow the economy” while Democrats want to “grow the government.”

Turning his attention to the reconciliation bill, the Fox anchor noted that it contains an extension and increase of the child tax credit that Barrasso himself supported when he voted for former President Donald Trump’s tax cuts in 2017. “Your state of Wyoming is one of the states that benefits most from the increase in the child tax credit. Why oppose that?” Wallace asked. After the conservative senator began complaining about the spending bill’s current $3.5 trillion price tag, the Fox News Sunday moderator cut him off, pushing him on the specific details of the child tax credit. “I guess part of the question is could you have worked with them on this child tax credit which you voted for in 2017? That’s one of the things you are voting against right now,” Wallace continued. “Why oppose that program?” Dodging the question, Barrasso insisted you had to look at the “entire balance” of the bill before complaining that the package calls for more stringent IRS auditing procedures. “This is an invasion of privacy,” the senator exclaimed. “Every senator's hearing about this. That is included as well.”

Moving past the child tax credit, Wallace then brought up another item of the spending bill that would help Barasso’s home state quite a bit. “You talk about things you don't like—like the added IRS agents and added IRS intrusion,” the veteran anchor declared. “Let's talk about another part of the bill which is universal Pre-K.” He added: “In the state of Wyoming, less than one-quarter of children 3-4, who would be covered in the bill, are enrolled in publicly funded preschool. Less than a quarter. Wouldn’t a lot of Wyoming families benefit from universal Pre-K?” Barrasso, however, couldn’t bring himself to give credit to the president for anything. “There’s a number of things that would help Wyoming,” he groused. “Overall, Joe Biden's policies have been hurting the people of Wyoming.” The Republican senator then grumbled that while progressives want to provide free community college, Pre-K, and daycare to Americans, it is “not the way our country has been founded.”

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[msongs]

1. "his" country leaves gay men to die hanging on a barbed wire fence. eff him nt

[LakeArenal]

2. We used to be all about great schools and health maintenance and food for poor.

I’m guessing even Jesus, the great Socialist, would want Wy to have nice things.

[TigressDem]

3. Not recent... but here is a breakdown of RED/BLUE states and how much they get from FED

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lDIqzizDMLN10A_cBZgF8zrldyG4cK1f/view?usp=sharing

(Found online, created a visual version for self on 3/18/21)

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Most Federally Dependent States (Only 1 of the top 16 HAS A DEMOCRATIC / BLUE Governor)

Rank State Total Score
(1 = Most Dependent) State Residents’ Dependency / State Government’s Dependency

1 New Mexico 86.57 1 6
2 Alaska 84.23 4 4
3 Mississippi 83.94 7 3
4 Kentucky 80.78 5 8
5 West Virginia 75.36 2 12
6 Montana 73.87 14 2
7 Arizona 70.33 10 7
8 Indiana 69.96 8 11
9 South Carolina 67.36 6 17
10 Louisiana 62.45 27 1
11 Alabama 59.36 11 15
12 Wyoming 58.14 24 5
13 Maine 53.8 12 18
14 Tennessee 52.81 22 9
15 Pennsylvania 47.8 17 20
16 Missouri 47.52 29 10



For Clarity... Chart shows which states have Republican Governors COMPLAINING about Federal Aid, while still receiving a ton of it.

See the actual link for more clarity.

Sorry for the confusion.

[cinematicdiversions]

5. Um there are at least two blue states there

And a bunch of purple.

[Withywindle]

6. Yep, NM and ME are blue

and PA and AZ are purple.

The point still stands, most of those states are red. But it doesn't do to be hyperbolic and inaccurate about it.

[TigressDem]

15. Added clarification... States with RED Governors..

It was put together to ask RED Governors, HOW can you be against FED aid when your state gets so much of it?

[rpannier]

8. I got 12 of 16 red

How do you define Bunch

[TigressDem]

9. My apologies... STATES WITH REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS...

The reason for the chart was they were asking Republican Governors, how can you be AGAINST FED help when your state USES so much of it?

SO Maine may be primarily BLUE, but their Gov is Republican.

Sorry, wasn't exactly what I meant to show.

[maxsolomon]

4. GQP Senators are generally not intelligent people.

They are winners of the "Biggest Sociopath in the State" contest. Barasso cannot debate on the merits. When asked to, he recites vague cliches.

Daycare is not the way our country was founded?

[uponit7771]

7. Faux newses two journalist don't make up for the volume of lies the rest tell

[TigressDem]

11. IDK... It is kind of satisfying when their OWNED KNEWS agency turns against them.

Whenever tRump's behavior was so OVER THE LINE that EVEN FAUX bailed on him.... it was kind of a STRONG STATEMENT

STILL not enough to break through the delusions, but they DID call Arizona for Biden and like Pence refused to GIVE tRump the election as VP and SOS of GA - Rassenberger refused to "FIND" the votes for tRump, maybe still too little in some ways, but it was STILL the right thing to do, done by someone under the thumb.... it says a lot about how horrible tRump et al's behavior is.

[spanone]

10. another partisan hack doing tfg's bidding

fuck him

[TigressDem]

12. Actually, Chris Wallace is NOT a Partisan Hack.... he's a token DEM on FAUX

IF he can get any bit of the truth to FAUX viewers, more power to him.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wallace


NBC Nightly News anchor (1982–1987)
Meet the Press moderator (1987–1988)
ABC Primetime correspondent (1989–2003)
Fox News Sunday anchor (2003–present)

Political party Democratic

[spanone]

13. talking about barrasso

[TigressDem]

14. OOPS. It's early. Sorry. nt

[spanone]

16. I wasn't clear.