Kyrsten Sinema’s op-ed seems to forget that Medicare, Medicaid and other spending programs can be completely eliminated with 50+VP via budget reconciliation washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Republicans tried to turn the ACA Medicaid expansion into a kind of block grant in 2017 via reconciliation. You can defund Planned Parenthood programs in reconciliation. You can set the Medicare age to 100. You can nix food stamps etc.
The ACA itself had a massive reconciliation sidecar that included a massive federal takeover of student loans and a new long-term care program.
One big question is sort of chicken, meet egg: How does Schumer get liberals to back a GOP-friendly bill while their priorities are on hold? There's a potential solution for Dems...
AOC has pointed out House can simply hold up the Senate's GOP-friendly infrastructure bill until the much broader Democratic package is ready and vote on both near simultaneously.
(This is similar to how the ACA ended up passing in 2010.)
You can do the math. Vast majority of people showing up in UK hospitals for COVID were not fully vaxxed, even though about half of the population is now fully vaxxed.
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