{"id":124574,"date":"2021-05-11T05:05:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T05:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=124574"},"modified":"2021-05-11T05:05:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T05:05:03","slug":"on-joe-bidens-jobs-and-families-plans-america-needs-republican-party-to-ante-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/politics\/on-joe-bidens-jobs-and-families-plans-america-needs-republican-party-to-ante-up\/","title":{"rendered":"On Joe Biden’s jobs and families plans, America needs Republican Party to ante up"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019re reading Our View,\u00a0one of two perspectives in Today\u2019s Debate.<\/em><\/p>\n

For the Opposing View by Sen. Tim Scott, read Biden ignoring Republican bipartisan efforts, forcing progressive policies<\/em><\/p>\n

If\u00a0American governance\u00a0is a competition of\u00a0ideas, President Joe\u00a0Biden appears to be winning.<\/p>\n

Or more accurately, he has\u00a0shown up for the contest with serious proposals on restoring\u00a0infrastructure, addressing climate change, improving the education and lives of children, and offering the middle class greater opportunities to succeed.<\/p>\n

The other side, by contrast,\u00a0is pretty much missing in action or, at most, throwing up roadblocks.\u00a0\u201cOne hundred percent of my focus is standing up to this administration,\u201d said\u00a0Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.\u00a0\u201cWhat we have in the United States Senate is total unity from Susan Collins to Ted Cruz in opposition to what the new Biden administration is trying to do to this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead of ideas, petty lies<\/h2>\n

Republican members of Congress have been repeating petty lies that Biden will take away people’s hamburgers\u00a0or that Vice President Kamala Harris is peddling her children’s book to migrant shelters at the border. Or they have been twisting the adjective “woke” into a pejorative.\u00a0McConnell has\u00a0crafted fiction\u00a0that Biden is trying to “nudge” Americans toward the kind\u00a0of jobs, cars and child care\u00a0only Democrats prefer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s all such nonsense. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Nothing in Biden’s infrastructure proposal, the American\u00a0Jobs Plan,\u00a0requires<\/em> Americans to do anything.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What it does is acknowledge\u00a0the indisputable science that\u00a0the planet is growing warmer from the burning of fossil fuels, and that hundreds of thousands of jobs could be created with investments in clean energy,\u00a0a revitalized electric\u00a0grid,\u00a0affordable (through tax incentives) electric cars\u00a0and erecting more car-charging stations.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, two-thirds of Americans say the government should do\u00a0more to fight climate change.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

From left, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy in April 2021 at a ceremony on Capitol Hill. (Photo: Jabin Botsford\/Pool photo)<\/span><\/p>\n

What do Republicans ante up in response? \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The same tired tropes. In his rebuttal to the president’s address to a joint session of Congress last month, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.,\u00a0mocked Biden’s blueprint\u00a0for education and support for children,\u00a0his American Families Plan, as\u00a0cradle-to-college nanny care.\u00a0But the plan is nothing of the sort.<\/p>\n

Choices resonating with Americans<\/h2>\n

Rather, it’s a series of federal investments aimed at improving lives and offering families choices that preliminary surveys show resonate with Americans\u00a0\u2013\u00a0including by one survey a large majority of Democrats and independents and a third of Republicans.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For example, Biden proposes spending $225 billion to help families with child care expenses. The problem with a shortage of affordable child care became painfully clear during the\u00a0pandemic, when\u00a0centers were closed. The impact fell disproportionately on women, who were left to choose between work and caring\u00a0for their children.\u00a0Biden’s\u00a0plan would spend $200 billion to provide free\u00a0universal preschool, something that studies for decades have shown beyond any doubt\u00a0prepares children of\u00a0all economic backgrounds with the tools to succeed in\u00a0school. Another $225 billion would provide workers with paid family and medical leave, benefits the United States\u00a0alone lacks among industrialized nations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

These are ideas worth debating that are aimed at addressing real-life needs of middle- and lower-income working families. With rare exceptions\u00a0\u2013 such as Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney’s proposed Family Security Act, which would provide cash benefits\u00a0 \u2013 what does the GOP offer as rebuttal other than to simply say no?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Americans are not only signaling they\u00a0like Biden’s ideas, but they also find appealing his way of paying for them with a hike in the corporate tax rate\u00a0for the infrastructure proposal and higher taxes on the very wealthy for the American Families Plan.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, the overall cost is a whopping $4 trillion, and that’s on top of more than $6 trillion in deficit spending by the Trump and Biden administrations on the pandemic.<\/p>\n

America needs the Republican Party<\/h2>\n

This is where the country needs the services of an engaged opposition party. Biden is to sit Wednesday with top congressional leaders, including McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Democratic leaders have shown willingness to\u00a0make concessions on what\u00a0Biden is proposing.<\/p>\n

Republicans have traditionally been the party of fiscal restraint and limited government. (Although those principles decayed\u00a0during the Trump administration’s profligate deficit spending.) But the GOP has also been the party of essential needs, advocating a strong military\u00a0and vital infrastructure, as when the interstate highway system was created under President Dwight Eisenhower at a cost of $500 billion in today’s dollars and\u00a0paid for with a tax on gasoline.<\/p>\n

A recent Republican counter deal on solely physical infrastructure needs such as restoring roads, bridges, rails, airports and water systems offered \u2013 after routine\u00a0expenditure\u00a0commitments are stripped \u2013 only 24 cents on every dollar proposed by Biden, not nearly enough to meet national demand.<\/p>\n

The nation is best served by two vibrant and competing parties willing to engage in serious negotiation on issues Americans say they truly care about.\u00a0The two plans Biden has put forth focus on those same issues. Now\u00a0there needs to be compromise on how much to spend and how to pay for it.<\/p>\n

It’s a competition of ideas, and the Republican Party needs to bring its best game.<\/p>\n

USA TODAY’s editorial opinions are decided by its Editorial Board, separate from the news staff and the USA TODAY Network. Most editorials are coupled with an Opposing View, a unique USA TODAY feature.<\/i><\/p>\n

To read more editorials, go to the Opinion front page or sign up for the daily Opinion email newsletter. To respond to this editorial, submit a comment to letters@usatoday.com.<\/i><\/p>\n

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