At least that’s what the BOC said today. Listen from what I heard today here’s what’s going on. The build back worse bill, although I don’t know you can call it that given that I don’t believe the actual bill has been actually written and put down on paper in statute form, had a bunch of welfare provisions that were scheduled to be permanent or at least ten years. The price tag was over $4 trillion and so the socialists comprised by saying these handouts would sunset in two years. Now as we’ve talked about before there has never been a government handout that wasn’t extended forever. Now I have to qualify that because I think that the additional federal payment for unemployment during the pandemic was actually canceled but that was a very specific benefit for a very specific and time limited problem.

So if you reduce the supposed length of a handout by a factor of 5, of course the price tag comes down but everyone knows and the left plans to make these changes permanent after the mid terms, so some republicans, specifically Lindsey Graham asked for the bill to be scored as originally intended and as would no doubt occur and the result was $3 trillion added to the national debt.

Now it’s possible that these programs won’t be extended in two years because the Dems will be in the minority, but remember that handouts are never repealed. Even something as stupid and unpopular as Obamacare is still on the books because of media whore John McCain. Republicans don’t have the balls to do what’s right for fear of not being liked by the media and the left. So don’t fall for the BOC’s bullshit about this being a fake CBO score. It’s reality divorced from budget tricks.