Though it’s a galling reality to the vast majority of the Democratic caucus, Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) will force the $3.5 trillion dollar reconciliation price tag to come down significantly.
I don’t think there has ever been a time in US history when the “ideal” bill for one side or the other has been passed without some compromises so, why start now? If we get a $2 trillion expansion of our infrastructure, things will improve. It’s definitely better than nothing.
Yes. Will have to come down. I was hoping they’d settle on $2.5 trillion. That plus $1.5 trillion in BIF would be nothing to sneeze at.
Cutting package back to five years from ten might solve a lot of problems. Not ideal, but better than ditching whole programs or cutting everything back uniformly so that nothing is very effective.
If this is Machinema’s pound of flesh requirement for their votes, then so be it. However, make sure you get them solid with no last minute backing out.
Specifically, schedule the Senate Reconciliation bill vote first, then the House BIF one.
This is such bullshit. Maybe if the Dems had called it a $350B annual plan they could have shoved it back in the fascists’ faces. And yet the right has no fucking problem at all handing out a trillion here and a trillion there to the oligarchs who hold the other end of their leashes. Assholes.
Sounds like the least bad option to me.
And they said bipartisanship was dead!
All things considered, it could be the best real option for now.
And it gives Democrats something (some things) to continue to fight for and campaign on going forward.
“Usually, measures like the Bush or Trump tax cuts are purposefully set to expire just before 10 years of duration, so as to not run afoul of the Byrd Rule, which prohibits deficit increases after a decade. But running the programs for a shorter period is permissible too.”
OK then, let’s shorten the Trump tax cuts to pay the difference.
That would make up for $1.5 trillion, right there.
Easy peasy.
Hey, I’m not giving up my $1.57 a year.
How can you possibly propose shit like that? Those poor billionaires will only be able to afford 6 space launches instead of 7 next year if you pull that shit.
Just think what that would mean to the poor William Shatners of the world.
Meh, he’s spent enough time on interstellar travel, should step aside and let someone else have a shot at space.
I think we should launch Bezos into space once a week until one of his dong rockets explodes.
Yeah, agreed. There are two ways to square the budget. But I think Manchin said he didn’t want to touch the sacred tax cuts and everyone else just kinda moved on.
Like this?
This was my suggestion when we first heard Manchin say 1.5T.
I’m hopeful: maybe Sinema will get run over by a bus.
He looks amazing for 90, doesn’t he?
Don’t want that. Republican governor. We’d lose the Senate.
Give the rich another huge tax cut, and ‘dong rockets’ will ‘explode’ in penthouses all across America.