A rare 100% Giltz agreement :) What really gets me, and I didn't get into this, as I've said it before, but Biden has done a TON, but our messaging sucks. We let people think "yeah that big bill got killed so Biden's agenda is dead." No, Biden's agenda was already largely accomplished, but this one rather big bill just died. That doesn't mean we can't pass individual parts of the bill that Manchin agrees with. But being the absolutists that we are, we had to put literally everything everyone wanted in one huge bill, lest the absolutists refuse to vote for the individual break-out bills because their pet proposal wasn't included.
Great article, but I think you meant trillion, not billion on the BBB price tag.
Oops, thanks! Just corrected.
Agree 100%. Excellent post.
A rare 100% Giltz agreement :) What really gets me, and I didn't get into this, as I've said it before, but Biden has done a TON, but our messaging sucks. We let people think "yeah that big bill got killed so Biden's agenda is dead." No, Biden's agenda was already largely accomplished, but this one rather big bill just died. That doesn't mean we can't pass individual parts of the bill that Manchin agrees with. But being the absolutists that we are, we had to put literally everything everyone wanted in one huge bill, lest the absolutists refuse to vote for the individual break-out bills because their pet proposal wasn't included.