Spending bills

As a resident of the 7th District represented by U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, I was not surprised at all at the news that Pressley plans to vote no on the $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill without a guarantee that the $3.5 trillion “Green New Deal” social spending bill in the Senate will also pass ( “Ayanna to burn bridge bill without $3.5T social spending,” Boston Herald, Sept. 30).

Pressley says she will vote against the smaller as in the $1.5 trillion bill for bridges, roads, etc. She and those in the Progressive Caucus want both massive bills totaling $5 trillion in new spending to get passed apparently together. She wants it all and she wants it now. As she states, “the Democrats are in power, and we don’t have to give in to these choices. This is the president’s agenda. This is the peoples’ agenda, and progressives are fighting hard to get this done for the people.”

I support the position taken by U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin who has become a voice of fiscal sanity within the Democratic Party by applying the brakes to all these spending frenzies up on Capitol Hill. Kudos to him for saying what needs to be said, “I cannot and will not support trillions in spending or an all or nothing approach that ignores the brutal reality our nation faces.”

By the way, the Biden White House says these huge spending bills won’t raise taxes or put us into deeper national debt. However, the Democrats won’t submit this spending to a Congressional Budget Office for a looksee before voting on it.

Pressley is not speaking for me or District 7 taxpayers by trying to ram through all this spending.