Biden’s ‘transformative vision,’ Democrats’ plans unfazed by meltdown in Afghanistan
District of Columbia | August 23, 2021
The chaos in Afghanistan may have changed global headlines, but it has done little to shake Democrats from their course at home. House members return to Capitol Hill on Monday to begin advancing the party’s $3.5 trillion makeover of the American social safety net.
Debates about welcoming tens of thousands of Afghan migrants did nothing to derail Democrats’ hopes of approving an amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants already in the U.S. as part of that makeover. Questions about the U.S. retreat have not dimmed party leaders’ plans this fall to erase one of the authorizations for the use of military force that underpinned the global war on terror.
Democrats also show little sign of backing off from a series of bills that increase domestic spending but limit the growth of Pentagon accounts…. (Excerpts from the Washington Times)