LETTER: Democrat agenda sows division

President Joe Biden is present touting a revised $2 trillion fund reconciliation bundle alternatively of the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better reconciliation package. The Democrats successful Congress consciousness immoderate urgency to get this done to “live up to their run promises.”

In different news, a existent canvass shows 87 percent of Americans are highly oregon precise acrophobic astir inflation/higher prices, the highest class of concern, followed by 76 percent who are highly oregon precise acrophobic astir governmental divisions successful the country.

As I recall, President Biden was mostly soundless during the 2020 campaign, but for attacks connected Donald Trump. The 2020 predetermination was much a rejection of Mr. Trump the idiosyncratic than support for Mr. Biden. In addition, Mr. Biden was touted arsenic the mean Democratic campaigner and, arsenic a result, helium bushed retired the progressive candidates (Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and the rest).

I contend that neither a 50-50 Senate nor an eight-vote bulk successful the House constitutes a mandate, and determination are nary run promises to unrecorded up to.

If the Democrats were receptive to Americans’ opinions, they should beryllium honorable and driblet the reconciliation bundle entirely, settling for a triumph with the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package. Budget reconciliation is not the mode to propulsion done large legislation; it smacks of demagoguery. And aft deficits of $2.8 trillion and $3.1 trillion successful the past 2 years, tin we truly spend different $200 cardinal to $300 cardinal per year?

Let’s code the existent pressing problems successful our state — specified arsenic inflation, the confederate border, the proviso crisis, China, and our immense deficits — alternatively of creating much crises and divisions and costs. Now that would beryllium reconciliation.