Washington s Welfare Uniparty – WSJ

Four months after decapitating their own speaker for a supposed lack of conservative principle, House Republicans this week celebrated by collaborating with Democrats to pass a welfare blowout. Kevin McCarthy, we hardly knew ye.

Proving again that Congress is incapable of anything beyond redistributing other people s money, 357 representatives passed another $78 billion spending bill. Add it to the pantheon of Nancy Pelosi-era bipartisan binges the infrastructure bill, the semiconductor-welfare transfer, the $1,400 Covid checks. New GOP leadership, same debt-fueled status quo.

Don t go looking for reform or spending discipline or any of the usual GOP catchwords in this blob. The beating heart of Wednesday s package is two longtime Democratic priorities increasing the size of the child tax credit and its availability to parents who don t pay income tax. The left accomplished both during Covid and have worked fervently to resurrect them since they expired in 2021. Republicans granted their wish.

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Kimberley Strassel