Remember when President Donald Trump would make a statement or a tweet that was incorrect or not true? Fact-checkers, political pundits, politicians, and the media would go into hyper-drive to prove and announce that Trump was wrong or lied.
President Joe Biden is not being subjected to a similar relentless “pursuit of the truth.” Maybe that is why Biden tweeted an absolute scorcher of a lie that his Build Back Better Agenda costs absolutely nothing.
In a tweet from Sept. 25, Biden said: “My Build Back Better Agenda costs zero dollars. Instead of wasting money on tax breaks, loopholes, and tax evasion for big corporations and the wealthy, we can make a once-in-a-generation investment in working America. And it adds zero dollars to the national debt.”
Biden’s statement is just patently absurd. Even granting arguendo Biden’s dubious claim that the Build Back Better Agenda is “already paid for,” this is wrong on numerous levels.
First, “already paid for” is vastly different from “costs zero dollars.” While BBB is said to include savings from policies that already occurred, it would take a lot of fuzzy math and arithmetic gymnastics for Biden’s claim to be true.
According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda includes two parts, a $550 billion bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and a proposal to utilize reconciliation instructions to authorize $3.5 trillion of spending and tax breaks. Additionally, BBB will cost approximately $350 billion and add close to, at minimum, $1 trillion to the national debt over the next ten years, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget reported. Moreover, depending on certain factors, that total can grow to as high as nearly $2.9 trillion.
Republican Arkansas Rep. Steve Womack exposed Biden’s lies in a tweet. “This is completely false. The largest spending spree in government history will cost “zero dollars”? That defies logic and basic math,” Womack tweeted. “Alongside massive tax increases, it will add trillions to the debt. Peddling false narratives won’t change those facts.”
Yet the media, so distraught about Trump’s lies, remain silent about Biden’s. Even more unsettling, they have been doing so since Jan. 20, 2021.
This is just the latest in a string of lies Biden has been caught in the past few weeks. But there will be no special segments on Rachel Maddow or Don Lemon. James Acosta will not address the real cost of the BBB. Chris Cuomo (well, he has enough problems right now) won’t say the president is a factually challenged liar on his program. They know he is, but they just don’t care.
