Joe’s Home-Care Ploy

President Biden is touting his latest $2 trillion spending push as a plan to rebuild America’s crumbling infrastructure. But the biggest line item has nothing to do with roads, bridges or even green-energy plants: It’s a ploy to vastly enlarge and unionize the ranks of home health-care aides.

That’s millions of low-skilled workers getting far more than now, so they can pay hefty dues to unions such as the Service Employees International Union, which can use that windfall to elect more left-wing Democrats.

Biden’s plan calls for $400 billion over eight years (a full fifth of the $2 trillion total) to create jobs and raise wages for these workers — while ensuring that they unionize.

He does it by expanding Medicaid funding for caregivers for the elderly and people with disabilities. In the last year with available data, 2018, the feds spent $71 billion on home care via Medicaid. Biden’s “COVID relief ” law boosted the federal matching rate for such services by 10 percent for a year. Now he’d add $50 billion a year.

Biden’s largesse comes with a big string: The White House says it will be tied to care workers getting “the ability to collectively bargain.” In other words, states must let them unionize — and Biden’s labor allies will see that it happens.

The home-care proposal “was incorporated in part due to a push by the SEIU, which represents close to 1 million caretakers,” The Washington Post reports.

The SEIU, which endorsed Biden for president, noted on its 2020-election Web site that a Biden-Harris administration would “put 3 million Americans to work in new care and education jobs.” Biden’s campaign site said he’d spend $450 billion on homecare workers, expanding that workforce “by roughly 1.5 million jobs.”

Naturally, a coalition that includes the SEIU will spend $20 million advocating for the plan. Then they’ll spend even more ensuring that the new workers (and hundreds of thousands who now aren’t unionized) sign up with the SEIU or a similar union. And with Biden’s nominees dominating the National Labor Relations Board, none of those workers will have a choice.

That’s just a small amount compared with the new dues the unions will collect — cash the president’s team expects to turn more states into Democratic strongholds like New York, California and Illinois, ensuring permanent Democratic control of Congress and the White House, and a never-ending stream of new schemes like this.

Biden’s talk of transforming the nation is no joke — he’s just not honest about what that transformation really means.