Reconciliation was never meant to be a tool for ramming partisan spending proposals through Congress,” said Gabe Murphy, a policy analyst at Taxpayers for Common Sense. “It was supposed to be about balancing the budget, and this bill does the opposite by piling trillions of dollars on the national debt.”…

Even if it did at some point succeed, which is a huge if, the very act of pursuing this program will have a destabilizing effect,” Murphy explained. “It will encourage adversaries to expand their offensive and defensive capabilities to maintain a balance of power.”