{"id":38253,"date":"2021-07-30T13:16:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T20:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38253"},"modified":"2021-07-30T16:17:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T23:17:11","slug":"democrats-warn-shrinking-bidens-spending-plan-could-backfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38253","title":{"rendered":"Democrats warn shrinking Biden&#8217;s spending plan could backfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Democrats are warning that any attempts by moderates to pare down a $3.5 trillion spending package could threaten\u00a0President Biden\u2019s top legislative priority and leave the party empty-handed.<\/p>\n<p>Progressive Democrats are\u00a0sounding the alarm\u00a0after Sen.\u00a0Kyrsten Sinema\u2019s (D-Ariz.) warned Wednesday that she doesn\u2019t support a $3.5 trillion price tag for an expansive package Democrats hope to muscle through Congress that includes top party priorities like immigration reform, combating climate change and expanding Medicare.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats hope to move the legislation on party lines in the Senate with special budgetary rules, preventing Republicans from filibustering the measure. But that effectively gives each Democratic senator, including Sinema, veto power on the bill.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are warning that any attempts&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38254,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38253\/revisions\/38254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}