Democratic civil war hits new heights

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Democratic civil war hits new heights The Democrats’ Tax-Hike Proposal Would Shatter Biden’s $400K No-New-Taxes Pledge Newsweek The Tortured Logic that Lets Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi Say a $3.5 Trillion Bill Will 'Cost Zero Dollars' To understand how the government works, look no further than the assertion by both President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that the Democrats' plan to spend $3.5 trillion over the next ten years will "cost zero dollars." The claim lit up social media with the predictable jokes—and widespread puzzlement. How could $3.5 trillion in new spending actually not cost anything? Democrats engaged in a verbal war on Thursday, with progressives and centrists accusing one another of essentially sabotaging President Biden's agenda and putting the party's majorities in jeopardy. The two factions have been growing more and more mutually irritated by the day amid a stalemate over the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed by the Senate and a larger, sweeping social spending measure now being crafted. But as lawmakers wondered whether they would be voting on an infrastructure bill that progressives have vowed to tank unless the budget bill moves first, the gloves really came off. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) in a CNN interview dismissed younger liberal lawmakers as newbies who don't understand how Washington works. "They haven't been legislators, most of them, for a very long period of time, and a lot of them have been activists," he said. "My car is older than quite a few of the progressives," Cohen added, criticizing the left flank for not compromising. MSNBC Did red state senator lie in Biden spending clash? Clues in leaked memo: Biden admin allows unvaccinated illegal immigrants 'willy-nilly' into county POLITICO Democrats grit their teeth after Manchin lists demands : Mediaite Psaki Tells Reporters To Go Pester Manchin and Stop Asking Her: ‘I Certainly Encourage You All to Keep Asking Him Questions About Where He Stands’ Kamala Harris hires crisis communications experts after string of 'missteps'