What Really Happened Over the Weekend | Talking Points Memo

Over the last four to five days, we’ve seen a fascinating and occasionally surreal set of contending storylines for what happened on Capitol Hill with the President’s infrastructure, climate and safety net agenda. In advance we saw the continued portrayal of an intra-party fight between “progressives” and “moderates” when in fact we had something closer to unanimity with a tiny but critical number of holdouts. Really it was Manchin and Sinema vs everyone else.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1389517

Democrats = Compromise
GQP + Manchinema = Compromised

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