Jayapal just took a bite out of Joe Manchin's leverage by showing it's not just moderates who can tank legislation around here.
Manchin still has plenty of leverage.
Dems still have time, too.
Pelosi said today that crunch time is actually her favorite part of negotiating a major piece of legislation today.
It might be a relief to be rid of the self-imposed infrastructure vote deadline, even if they basically blew it.
While Joe Manchin and I were crossing the street yesterday I asked him about progressives likely tanking the infrastructure bill.
Not much reaction: “I’m always willing to deal in good faith."
Bernie Sanders has been rooting for this outcome:
“I hope that gets us off square one and onto square two,” Sanders told HuffPost. “Both bills have got to go forward in parallel, in tandem, and that it’s imperative that we pass both of them.”
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House Dems shrugging when I ask if they’re voting on infrastructure tonight
Rep Mark Pocan (D-Wis) said he’d be “shocked” if the House votes tonight since progressives would kill it and Pelosi doesn’t do show votes
Josh Gottheimer with a different, less plausible view: “I think at the end of the day we're all going to get there and there's no one better Speaker Pelosi getting votes and she's out there working hard and made it clear we're gonna vote tonight”
There are ways Democrats could still fit a lot of their agenda into a lower number. They could exclude the rich and poor like Manchin wants or shorten policy durations, a typical Congress strategy for making things cheaper on paper
“I cannot accept our economy or basically our society moving towards an entitlement mentality,” Manchin said.
Def a throwback to before last year’s bipartisan agreement on helping even the poorest through an economic crisis
Checks lifted 11 million above poverty specifically because there was no income requirement -- exactly the thing Joe Manchin now says he dislikes about the child tax credit.
Children still had higher poverty in 2020 than other age groups.
McCarthy & co's top question is why was the Capitol so vulnerable. They claim Dems fear this question.
But a bipartisan Senate investigation focused on the security failure. Their report faulted failures of intelligence sharing, police leadership disarray & no riot training
McCarthy keeps repeating this detail from the Senate report about how police riot gear was on a bus that was locked, saying Dems don't want to investigate this.
But that's -- that's FROM the investigation that Amy Klobuchar was running!
“I’m gonna surprise you ― I don’t really have an opinion on that right now,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said.
Marco Rubio and Republicans helped lay the foundation for the new benefit by doubling the credit in 2017. Rubio dislikes that there’s no longer an income requirement.
“You can call it a tax credit, but that’s not what it is.”