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Biden Admits He Will Have to ‘Build Back Better’ With Less, Is ‘Not Going to Get $3.5 Trillion’

The size of Joe Biden’s much-touted $3.5 trillion Build Back Better economic plan, aimed, among other things, at expanding child care, paid leave, Medicare, extending enhanced household tax credits and promoting green energy, has met with both staunch Republican opposition and driven a wedge between progressive and moderate Democrats.

US President Joe Biden appeared to fully acknowledge on Friday that despite repeatedly vowing to “get it done” and push though his $3.5 trillion spending bill, the price tag would have to be scaled back.

As he spoke at the Capitol Child Development Center in Hartford, Connecticut, Biden admitted that his signature campaign promise of delivering the Build Back Better Agenda would require reducing the scope of the massively ambitious bill.

“When I hear people say it costs $3.5 trillion, I’ll be honest with you, we’re probably not going to get $3.5 trillion this year. We’re gonna get something less than that, but I’m going to negotiate. I’m going to get it done,” said the president.

Throughout his speech at the child care center the POTUS touted his two bills as critical to remedying a situation that has placed America’s infrastructure “from the best in the world” to 13th, according to the World Economic Forum. Biden underscored that the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development also ranked the US 35 out of 37 major countries in terms of investing in early childhood education and care.

At this point, the Democratic president reiterated that the two “critical pieces of legislation” debated in Washington were “about opportunity versus decay, and about leading the world or continuing to let the world move by us”.

He hailed his Build Back Better Initiative as a “life changer,” the cost of which, in terms of adding to the deficit, was zero. Biden emphasised that “big corporations and the very wealthy ought to start paying their fair share”.

Nevertheless, at the end of the remarks, Joe Biden again conceded that the price tag of the proposed spending bill would be less than his team had pushed for.

“I’m convinced we’re going to get it done. We’re not going to get $3.5 trillion… We’ll get less than that, but we’re going to get it, and we’re going to come back and get the rest.”

The need to revise the size of the gigantic $3.5 trillion Build Back Better plan has been floated on several occasions by the Democrats. The party holds a slim majority in the House, and with the Senate split 50-50, lawmakers cannot afford to lose a single vote.

But apart from the Republican opposition to the outsize bill, the issue has split progressive and moderate Democrats. Particularly vehement opposition to the proposed spending has come from centrist Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.

Manchin has indicated that he won’t support anything exceeding a $1.5 trillion price tag. One of the crucial parts of Joe Biden’s climate change-tackling initiative, the clean electricity programme, is likely to be axed due to opposition from Manchin, who represents the coal and natural gas rich state of West Virginia. The programme would have committed $150 billion to shift power plants away from coal and natural gas and towards wind and solar energy. The NYT earlier reported that Senator Sinema “wants to cut at least $100 billion from climate programmes” in the reconciliation bill.

After the House reconvened to clear the Senate-passed short-term extension of the debt ceiling that will allow the Treasury to meet the nation’s financial obligations into December, the back-and-forth over the $3.5 trillion House reconciliation bill continued.

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has suggested that Democrats could be forced to cut major parts of US President Joe Biden’s proposed $3.5 trillion economic plan to get it through Congress.

60% of TSA Employees Refusing COVID Injection, Says Insider Source

Figure reveals mainstream media grossly underreporting the true number of unvaccinated employees as deadline looms.

A source within the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has revealed exclusively to Infowars that around 60% of agency officials have still refused to take the COVID injection, much higher than the official reporting of 40%.

The insider, a TSA manager at a top ten U.S. airport with direct knowledge of the situation, told Infowars that 2/3 of TSA employees haven’t gotten the jab at his airport despite the fast-approaching November 22 deadline, and that figure is similar at other airports in the U.S.

The estimate, he says, is based on an internal survey given to TSA employees asking whether they were “vaccinated,” “unvaccinated,” or “would not disclose.”

The figure is 20% higher than what is officially reported in mainstream media, who are claiming a “staggering” 40% of TSA employees haven’t gotten the shot.

TSA Administrator David Pekoske told CNN in a Thursday interview that 60% of its workforce is fully vaccinated.

“We have about 60% of our workforce has been vaccinated, that that number needs to go quite a bit higher over the next few weeks,” said Pekoske.

“We are building contingency plans for if we do have some staffing shortages as a result of this, but I hope to avoid that,” he added without elaborating on what those “contingencies” may be.

Because of the 3-4 week waiting period between doses, the deadline for TSA employees to get the Pfizer injection is October 18, just days away, and the deadline to get the Moderna jab passed on October 11.

And the last possible date to get a single-shot Johnson & Johnson shot is November 8, two weeks before the deadline.

This comes as major airlines are working to cover up mass resistance to the vaccine within the industry, where pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are reportedly refusing to abide by Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate.

How will the federal government respond when the deadline passes and the majority of airline employees and TSA officials still haven’t gotten the experimental jab?

More than a million take part in pro-life marches south of the border

‘Mexico marched, Mexico stood up, Mexico did not give up’

Less than a month after Mexico decriminalized abortion, more than 300,000 people gathered in Mexico City to show their support for life at all stages. According to the Catholic News Agency, the total headcount for the March for Women and for Life on October 3 throughout the nation was more than one million participants, including the smaller marches held in various locations.

A highlight was an ultrasound performed by a doctor on a 38-weeks pregnant mother, with the crowd having the opportunity to hear her baby’s heartbeat. Those gathered also heard a testimony from the event’s organizer, Marcial Padilla, and his wife, Mayela Sepúlveda. Together they spoke about their nine-year-old daughter, Ana Paula, who has a “very severe brain injury.”

“She can’t take care of herself, she needs everything from us. She is just as vulnerable as when she was a baby before birth or newborn,” they said. However, they also added that “we have learned that love for a sick child can be infinite.” The couple pointed out that despite the challenges of raising their daughter, her life has meaning.

Several other speakers headlined the event, including Mayra Rodríguez, who previously worked at a Planned Parenthood in Arizona, and Lianna Rebolledo, a pro-life advocate who became pregnant at the age of 12 following a violent rape. Rebolledo addressed the belief that women should be permitted to abort their children in cases of rape, saying that many believe the rape “ha[s] already destroyed a girl’s life, that no one is going to love her, that she is no longer worthy, and that she should abort the baby. But you know what, that’s a double victimization,” she said.

Despite the fact that doctors encouraged her to abort, Rebolledo refused. “Fortunately the fact that they told me that I was pregnant changed my life,” she said. “Even as a 12-year-old girl, you ask yourself: Will getting an abortion take away the fact that I was raped? Will I forget the trauma? No, right?”

The march in Mexico City comes on the heels of the Mexican Supreme Court’s decision to decriminalize abortion, a ruling that many expect will lead to the full legalization of abortion in the near future. Many of the marchers participated in order to show their opposition to the recent ruling.

“Mexico marched, Mexico stood up, Mexico did not give up, Mexico showed it is in favor of life, in favor of women, in favor of the family, in favor of fundamental freedoms,” said Rodrigo Iván Cortés, president of the National Front for the Family. “Let the three powers of the union listen to us: executive, legislative and judicial. Let them listen loud and clear: we do not want more deaths, we want more life, we do not want them to legalize the crime of abortion, we want them to protect the pregnant woman and the baby that she carries within her.”

Social Security Increases Accelerate Insolvency Timeline

The Social Security Administration’s plans to increase recipients’ benefits by 5.9% next year could lead the Social Security Trust fund to run out of money by 2032, one year ahead of previous estimates, according to Maya MacGuineas, president of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

“The trajectory for Social Security was already an incredibly troubling one,” MacGuineas commented, according to a report published on NBC Montana. “When you have a big bump up like this that means that spending is going to be higher, not just this year, but all years going forward.”

The upcoming increases, which will start in 2022, are the largest since 2009, when retirees got a 5.8% increase. In other years over the last decade, low inflation has brought increases of less than 2% a year. The 2022 increase is also the largest cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) since 1982. 

If inflation causes workers paying into the program to earn higher wages, Social Security may not be in trouble, but if the wages don’t increase, Social Security could face insolvency sooner than expected. 

“[There are] a lot of challenges and a Congress that only seems to agree on doing nothing to reform and strengthen the program,” MacGuineas said.

Meanwhile, Social Security is the largest item in the federal budget, with the United States spending $1.135 trillion this fiscal year, resulting in one-third of all mandatory spending. 

Those costs will only increase in upcoming years, as payouts increase and more Americans reach retirement age. 

The upcoming pay bumps will mean larger checks starting in January. For example, retirees earning $1,565 a month last year will get $1,657 this year. 

The adjustment comes after the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced data showing the continued rise of the price of consumer goods, including prices up overall by 5.4% for the year, including the price of groceries up by 4.5%, and energy costs climbing 25%.

The Senior Citizens League, a nonpartisan advocacy group, says it has gotten hundreds of emails in the past month from older Americans who are unable to pay their bill. It estimates that Social Security benefits have seen their buying power cut by as much as one-third since 2000, and the situation will get worse, said Mary Johnson, a policy analyst for the organization. 

“It appears that inflation is not done with us yet, and the buying power of Social Security benefits may continue to erode into 2022,” she said. 

For one in four older Americans, Social Security benefits represent at least 90% of their total income. 

Biden’s USAID Launches $125 Million Project To Find 12,000 New Viruses

Joe Biden’s U.S. Agency for International Development launched a new $125 million dollar project with Washington State University and foreign collaborators to discover over 10,000 novel viruses in nature.

The ambitious program follows the agency funding a similar form of research conducted by EcoHealth Alliance and its controversial partner: the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Many experts believe this Chinese Communist Party-run lab is the source of COVID-19.

The new program, announced by Washington State University (WSU) on October 5th, will endeavor “to collect over 800,000 samples in the five years of the project.”

“This process is expected to yield 8,000 to 12,000 novel viruses, which researchers will then screen and sequence the genomes of the ones that pose the most risk to animal and human health,” a summary adds.

The program relies on collaboration with foreign countries, as its description outlines its efforts to “build scientific capacity in partner countries” focusing on coronaviruses, filoviruses, and paramyxoviruses. While WSU’s foreign collaborators have not been identified yet, in the past, the school has partnered with Chinese Communist Party-linked technology firms including DJI for research.

DJI has admitted complying with Beijing’s data requests, leading the U.S. Army to ban their use in 2017, citing cyber vulnerabilities. The office of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Los Angeles also sent a memo stating officials have “moderate confidence” DJI’s commercial drones and software are “providing US critical infrastructure and law enforcement data to the Chinese government.”

“The project plans to partner with up to 12 targeted countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to carry out large-scale animal surveillance programs within their own countries, safely, using their own laboratory facilities,” a WSU summary explains.

“We will work to not only detect viruses but also build capacity in other countries, so the United States can collaborate with them in carrying out this important work,” said Felix Lankester, lead principal investigator for the project.

MIA: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg

Over the last six months, companies globally have sounded the alarm about a growing supply chain threat: the incredible backup at US ports, in particular at ports in California.

What started as a concern has spiraled into a full blown transportation emergency – one that threatens to spike already rising inflation and lead to scarcity of essential items here in the US.

The current supply chain crisis falls squarely within the purview of the Secretary of Transportation – given that it involves ports, rail, and trucking (ie the basic components of the Secretary of Transportation’s policy portfolio).

This transportation crisis comes as lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been debating a bipartisan infrastructure plan. A plan that the Biden White House says will invest:

“around $550 billion in new federal investment in America’s roads and bridges, water infrastructure, resilience, internet, and more. The bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will grow the economy, enhance our competitiveness, create good jobs, and make our economy more sustainable, resilient, and just.”

You would think that at this moment – a moment where infrastructure and the future of infrastructure was issue number 1 – that the Secretary of Transportation would be everywhere. That he would be one of the most critical voices in the entire country.

If you thought that, however, you’d be wrong.

Pete Buttigieg, the former Mayor of South Bend, former Presidential candidate and Democratic Party wunderkind currently has the designation as Secretary of Transportation, but apparently he hasn’t actually been doing the job during this moment of crisis.

About a week ago, Fox News ran a story that noted:

“Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has been uncharacteristically quiet over congested ports across the U.S., and his critics say if he ever wants to see whether a future presidential campaign could float, he’d better start addressing the problem before shipping delays worsen ahead of the holidays.”

Buttigieg’s silence was particularly noteworthy – not just because this was the most significant transportation policy moment that we have faced in more than 20 years – but also because Mayor Pete had been a noted fixture on cable news and on the DC cocktail party circuit in the first few months of the Biden administration.

The question of Buttigieg’s absence finally got an explanation, albeit after the fact when Politico ran a piece asking “Can Pete Buttigieg Have it All” in their daily West Wing playbook.

In the piece, it is noted that,

“PETE BUTTIGIEG has been MIA. 

While U.S. ports faced anchor-to-anchor traffic and Congress nearly melted down over the president’s infrastructure bill in recent weeks, the usually omnipresent Transportation secretary was lying low. 

One of the White House’s go-to communicators didn’t appear on TV. He was absent on Capitol Hill during the negotiations over the bill he had been previously helping sell to different members of Congress. Conservative critics tried (unsuccessfully) to get #WheresPete to trend and Fox News ran a story on October 4 with the headline: “Buttigieg quiet on growing port congestion as shipping concerns build ahead of holidays.”

They didn’t previously announce it, but Buttigieg’s office told West Wing Playbook that the secretary has actually been on paid leave since mid-August to spend time with his husband, Chasten, and their two newborn babies.”

Unbelievably, the Secretary of Transportation is MIA during the most significant moment in decades for the Department of Transportation. He is MIA without any notice, no explanation until after the fact, and insanely this is what we are told:

“For the first four weeks, he was mostly offline except for major agency decisions and matters that could not be delegated,” said a spokesperson for the Department of Transportation. “He has been ramping up activities since then.” As he does that, Buttigieg will “continue to take some time over the coming weeks to support his husband and take care of his new children,” the spokesperson added.

Instead of criticizing Secretary Buttigieg for not even bothering to give the American people a heads up that he wouldn’t be around the corporate media is instead focusing on Tucker Carlson’s criticism of Mayor Pete.

“As just about every sane person has acknowledged, inflation is rising because the government has devalued the US dollar by making too many US dollars.

‘They’re like sand now, they’re not worth much. But still the White House does not seem concerned.

‘Pete Buttigieg has been on leave from his job since August after adopting a child – paternity leave, they call it – trying to figure out how to breastfeed. No word on how that went.

‘But now he’s back in office as the Transportation Secretary and he’s deeply amused, he says, to see that dozens of container ships can’t get into this country.”

In what can only be described as the most predictable attack of all time, the left and the corporate media criticized – dare I say pounced! – on Carlson’s comments, accusing him of being homophobic.

Let me be clear, I am gay and I have known and been friends with Tucker for a very long time. Long before Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or Joe Biden were supporting marriage equality – Tucker was. There is absolutely nothing homophobic about Tucker or about his criticism of Secretary Buttigieg.

The corporate media ought to be outraged at Buttigieg’s cavalier treatment of this crisis and his absolute dereliction of duty. If Mayor Pete isn’t up to the job – he should resign.

Murderer of Conservative MP Revealed to be 25-Year-Old of “Somali Origin”

Likely Islamic terror attack.

The murderer who brutally stabbed Conservative MP Sir David Amess to death earlier today in what is likely an Islamic terror attack has been identified as a 25-year-old of Somali origin.

Amess was attacked while attending his his constituency surgery at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.

The pro-Brexit, anti-abortion MP was stabbed “more than a dozen times” by the attacker and subsequently died on the scene while paramedics tried to treat his wounds.

“It is understood the man being held on suspicion of murder is of Somalian origin,” reports the Telegraph.

Although authorities say they are keeping an “open mind” about the motivation behind the attack, the investigation is being led by counter-terrorism officers.

According to the Independent, “The murder is being treated at this point as a probable Islamist terror attack.”

The identity of the perpetrator will once again open up a debate in the UK about the threat posed by mass immigration, especially given the record numbers of boat migrants arriving on England’s south coast.

The same leftists who rush to blame conservatives and white people in general after every right-wing terror attack will also pull their usual trick of claiming any focus on the terrorist’s nationality or religion is “Islamophobic.”

They will also continue to insist that “diversity is a strength.”

The vast majority of terror attacks in the United Kingdom over the past 20 years have been carried out by Islamists, including the devastating 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, which was carried out by a jihadist who had been rescued from Libya as a refugee by the Royal Navy.

An Ethics Complaint Has Officially Been Filed Against Jen Psaki

An ethics complaint has been filed against White House press secretary Jen Psaki after she indulged in a bit of political cheerleading during a White House briefing.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has filed a complaint with the Office of Special Counsel calling for an investigation of an alleged Hatch Act violation by Psaki, according to The Hill.

The Hatch Act bans government employees from partisan campaign activities and other political activity while acting in their official capacity.

CREW, a nonpartisan watchdog group, said Psaki crossed the line Thursday during a White House briefing when she gushed over Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia. McAuliffe is locked in a tight race against Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin.

Psaki was asked if the White House was interpreting the race as a referendum on President Joe Biden’s policies, which McAuliffe strongly supports.

“Well, I have to be a little careful about how much political analysis I do from here and not (inaudible) into that too much,” she said, according to a White House transcript of the briefing.

“Look, I think the president, of course, wants former Gov. McAuliffe to be the future governor of Virginia. There is alignment on a lot of their agenda, whether it is the need to invest in rebuilding our roads, rails, and bridges, or making it easier for women to rejoin the workforce,” she said.

“I will say as — I will leave it to other outside analysis to convey that off-year elections are often — are often not a bellwether, but — and there’s a lot of history here in Virginia. But, again, we’re going to do everything we can to help former Gov. McAuliffe, and we believe in the agenda he’s representing,” she said.

The letter from CREW said Psaki’s comment was a foul when it came to the Hatch Act.

“By mixing official government business with support of a candidate for partisan political office in the weeks before the election and engaging in political activity while on duty, Ms. Psaki appears to have used her official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election, political activity that is prohibited by law,” the letter said.

Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany scolded the establishment media for not making a peep when Psaki crossed the line.

“Why does the media not hold @PressSec accountable for potential Hatch Act violations? She has twice advocated for political candidates from the podium. There is no problem in engaging in First Amendment political activity, but it must be done separate and apart from the podium,” she tweeted.

Psaki shrugged off the complaint as a case of poor word choice, according to CNN.

“I take ethics seriously. So does the president, of course,” she said in an interview.

“As I understand it, if I had said ‘he’ instead of ‘we,’ that would not have been an issue at all, and I’ll be more careful with my words next time,” Psaki said. “Words certainly matter.”

“While the President has publicly expressed his support for McAuliffe, we’ll leave it to the press and the campaign to provide commentary on the race,” Psaki told CNBC.

Earlier this year, the Office of Special Counsel ruled that Marcia Fudge, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, violated the Hatch Act in talking about Democrats’ chances to win an upcoming election in her home state of Ohio.

Delta Fines Unvaxxed Workers $200 Monthly Until They Get Vaccine

Delta Air Lines CEO explained why airline does not have a vaccine mandate, but failed to note it fines unvaxxed employees with company health insurance

While the Delta Airlines CEO appeared on national news to defend his company’s decision not to require its employees to become vaccinated, the company instead has a policy that financially punishes those who refuse the vaccine if they participate in the company’s health insurance plan.

In a clip posted by Arsenal Media’s Benny Johnson, Delta Airlines CEO Ed Bastian appeared on Fox Business to discuss how his business handled mass vaccination efforts. When the conversation turned to why his airline does not specifically mandate COVID-19 vaccines, CEO Ed Bastian said that his company found another way to reach a near universal vaccination rate.

“The reason the mandate was put in by the president, I believe, was because they wanted to make sure companies had a plan to get their employees vaccinated,” said Bastian. “A month before the president came out with the mandate, we already announced our plan to get all of our people vaccinated. And the good news is, the plan is working.”

The plan Bastian refers to involves fining employees who partake in the company’s health insurance plan $200 per month if they do not receive one of the controversial vaccines, and ostensibly the following booster shots.

While some pundits have declared victory, in reality Bastian sent a memo to employees in August describing this new surcharge for any employee participating in the airline’s insurance plan as far back as August, according to CBS News.

“The average hospital stay for COVID-19 has cost Delta $50,000 per person. This surcharge will be necessary to address the financial risk the decision to not vaccinate is creating for our company,” Bastian said in the memo. Despite this not being true in the country, CBS notes Bastion indicated all of those who were hospitalized did not receive the vaccine.

Ultimately, explained Bastian in his recent appearance on Fox Business, charging people to work at the airline unless they consent to become vaccinated has resulted in a 90% vaccination rate. He expects this to rise to 95% in the next month, and seemed to leave the remaining 5% for potential religious and medical exemptions.

Due to the pandemic, Delta Air Lines’ number of employees shrunk to 74,000 in 2020. If we assume this number does not rise, this means Bastian expects 70,300 of the 74,000 to receive the vaccine, and only 3,700 to be granted an exemption.

Walmart CRT Training Encourages Employees to Accept That ‘White Is Not Right’

Walmart has put more than 1,000 employees through a critical race theory training that teaches that the U.S. is a “white supremacy system” and that white trainees are guilty of “white supremacy thinking” and “internalized racial superiority,” according to a new report.

Whistleblower documents obtained by City Journal’s Christopher Rufo reveal that Walmart first launched the program, which is based on the core principles of critical race theory, in 2018 in partnership with the Racial Equity Institute.

The company has made the program mandatory for executives, while it is recommended for hourly-wage workers. Rufo calls out Walmart over its hypocrisy, noting that its whole nine-member top executive leadership, except technology chief Suresh Kumar, is white.

Walmart confirmed to Rufo that it has “engaged REI for a number of training sessions since 2018” and has “found these sessions to be thought provoking and constructive.” 

The training claims that the U.S. is a “white supremacy system,” created by white Europeans “for the purpose of assigning and maintaining white skin access to power and privilege,” according to the report.

The program suggests that white people are guilty of “white privilege” and “internalized racial superiority,” the belief that “one’s comfort, wealth, privilege and success has been earned by merits and hard work” rather than through the benefits of systemic racism. The training claims that the “white supremacy culture” is defined by several qualities, including “individualism,” “objectivity,” “paternalism,” “defensiveness,” “power hoarding,” “right to comfort,” and “worship of the written word.”

It adds that “discussions about racist conditioning” should occur in racially segregated groups as “people of color and white people have their own work to do in understanding and addressing racism,” the report notes.

According to the training, employees who are racial minorities suffer from “constructed racist oppression” and “internalized racial inferiority” and struggle with internal messaging such as, “we believe there is something wrong with being a person of color,” “we have lowered self-esteem,” “we have lowered expectations,” “we have very limited choices,” and “we have a sense of limited possibility.”

This harmful internal thinking forces them to buy into the “myths promoted by the racist system,” according to the training, and to develop feelings of “self-hate,” “anger,” “rage,” and “ethnocentrism,” and they are forced to “forget,” “lie,” and “stop feeling” to survive.

The program suggests that the solution is for white people to work on “white anti-racist development” and to accept their “guilt and shame” and that “white is not right.” Ultimately they should work toward “collective action” where “white can do right.”

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