Democrats want to lower the budget by making it more target and they love to talk about targeted like it's a cruise missiles target. They know that if you just nickel and dime it to death, nobody's going to want to use it or it's too confusing,. And then it's politically popular if you suffocate it by process and red tape, then by design, that's what you do. It's kind of a progressive wish list, like funding college ation or investing in climate solutions. Good modest climate provisions are quotin, progressive wishless so i want to repeatedly quote my own articles on this issue.
In this News Brief, we recapped how, in the face of a once in a generation opportunity to relieve poverty and address curb climate change, US media largely gave us personality, Horse Race coverage, and defensive snark–– aiding conservatives efforts to winnow down the bill to a fraction of its original size.