The day started with the White House releasing the long-awaited reconciliation framework, clocking in at $1.75 trillion and outlining the bill’s primary programmatic elements.
Senators have left for the weekend, and the House is going to vote on short-term transportation extension tonight, indicating that they will not vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. These negotiations will grind on into next week.
Not a grind. This is so much fun! Yay!
a week left to negotiate more stuff into and out of the framework? my god. Kate, what are the odds this thing is actually voted on before the damned debt ceiling comes up again? I don’t see any way this is done before 2022
We’re doomed, grim marshall.
I hope this months-long view of sausage making and donor influence will be old news by the mid-term elections, because it sure makes the Dems look incompetent right now.
Why? Because you all need a victory NOW?
The dems have the barest of a majority right now because of Manchin and Sinema antics.
What do you think is going on behind the scenes to change that?
Great, more time for Manchinema to spin, pivot, duck, dodge, weave and obfuscate.
Sigh, I know, we’ll eventually get there…
The day started with…
Democracy!
It looks bad and stop trying to pretend it doesn’t. Tanking approval numbers are proof of that. The dragging out could absolutely come into another crisis driving approval down to a point of no return.
You don’t think this stuff effects other elections as well? Elections coming up?
Pelosi asked Dems not to embarrass Biden and that’s just what they did today.
They did? All 275 Democrats in Congress? Every single one? Without exception?
Wow, and all this time I thought it was just a question of that mentally-ill woman and the coal dude: the more you learn!
I think Medicare negotiating prescription drugs costs is a big deal and should stay.
I have no idea how that gets through Sinema’s head.
No she is not smart.
For two people that seem to want to be seen as having very strong convictions about ???, where were they in the development of any of these bills?
Yes we have a Democracy, but somehow it doesn’t sit right with me that so many of the proposals by work of others means that Sinemachin get to turn up their noses put their foot down without facing the public.
For those snipping that this is Biden’s fault are off the mark. The Dems are not like the Republicans that have their legislature written for them by outside interest groups, and a McConnell that has his foot on every Congressional Republican’s neck. Debate is good, but you need two sides to a debate, and we got one side not negotiating in good faith.
She needs to be made to explain herself. (I have an image of Nancy pulling her to a microphone by her ear)
Someone (member of the House or Senate that is) ought to be fired
No politician I know needs to be forced before a microphone. But hauling her around by her ear still works
Take a vote. Then she can say why she tanked it.
Biden is off to Europe and has been handed a major embarrassment by the democrats by not passing the damn bills
I’m so old, I can remember little old ladies attacking Dan Rostenkowski with their walkers.
Those were the days…
Fond memories…
I once shook Eisenhower’s hand
Not one damn thing. We need to quit setting arbitrary deadlines. They don’t mean shit. That’s what’s making us look bad. Other than that it’s going as good as possible given our circumstances. Lighten up people. At least Trump is gone. Things could be much worse.