Tuesday that he will accept the West Virginia conservative’s reconciliation compromise. It has a provision to lower prescription drug prices, and healthcare subsidies, and — perhaps most importantly for Schumer — the votes to pass. But it’s a crummy deal overall, especially considering what it once was. Gone are the tax increases on the wealthiest Americans, which Manchin said just a few months ago were key to beating back inflation .
Democrats swept into Washington last year on a promise not just to hit the reset button after four years of, but to enact a bold platform. The signature piece of that agenda was the Build Back Better plan, the very bill that Manchin has whittled down from a transformational, $2 trillion package toto what is now essentially a narrow piece of healthcare legislation. Democrats have little choice but to take it at this point — it’ll improve peoples’ lives, and a win is a win.
Catching a whiff of reality and acting on it is not sabotage.
Because it was terrible! Look at the polls wrongtrack
Who ever wrote this piece should be fired. The bias, the wording everything about the article. I don't even know what this person is talking about. This is really a journalist. 😲
I would really like to get to him in a locked room with a rubber hose.
EricExtempore Around our house, we always say 'Manchin+50Republicans.' Way too much empowerment of a sellout otherwise.
Please stop voting for this 🤡!