Fuck this. Progressives should make clear they won't vote for the BIF if this is all that's on the table. axios.com/scoop-manchin-…
Also, I know I keep ranting about this, but it's all so fucking arbitrary. WHY $1.5T rather than $3.5T? What reasoning or economic analysis supports this? Manchin just pulls these numbers out of the shallow puddle of his mind & is allowed to masquerade as "responsible." Uuuugh.
Here's an idea: let's stop talking about the headline spending number of the reconciliation bill & start talking about what it does. Manchin's dickheadery should not be framed as "spending less," but as "cutting back needed support for working parents & the elderly."
Of course, even as I say this I know it's impossible. The mainstream media has completely adopted right-wing framing of this -- always "spending," or worse, "social spending dreams" -- & Dems simply don't have the media apparatus to push back on the RW & MSM together.
And so, once again, a bill full of policies that Americans desperately need & support by large majorities is going to end up a political liability -- & political reporters will pretend it just happened & they had no role in it.
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