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As California considers implementing large-scale reparations for Black residents affected by the legacy of slavery, the state has also become the focus of the nation's divisive reparations conversation, drawing the backlash of conservatives criticizing the priorities of a liberal" state.
Reparations for Slavery? California's Bad Idea Catches On," commentator Jason L Riley wrote in the Wall Street Journal, as New York approved a commission to study the idea. In the Washington Post, conservative columnist George F Will said the state's debate around reparations adds to a plague of solemn silliness".
It is consistently this notion that the descendants of slaves do not deserve these types of reparations.
In the past, House leaders typically have told the hard right to pound sand, knowing they weren't going to vote for the final bill anyway. But after pissing off conservatives during the debt limit standoff, McCarthy looks poised to make a different calculation this time.
Every culture war' provision from the Freedom Caucus that's added to the base legislation will cost Democratic votes. It will also make GOP moderates unhappy.
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