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1 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Again the reads on this situation that some voices at CNN choose to give its audience are wrong and pretty baffling.
This just isn’t the case. It isn’t. The effort to detach the infrastructure bill from the reconciliation bill isn’t aligned with the WH. The progressives who delayed the vote are aligned with the WH and made a reconciliation bill containing more of the Biden agenda more likely.
This is a significant analytical and explanatory failure by two major news organizations.
If the Gottheimer gambit succeeds (which it still could) then maybe there isn’t a reconciliation bill at all, and all that’s left of the Biden agenda is a goosed up highway bill. IOW a lot less of the Biden agenda than doing universal pre-k, community college, tax reforms, etc.
"These are his proposals. This is what he believes in. BOTH pieces of legislation," Jen Psaki says at her briefing this afternoon.

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Every year before the court gets back to work in October, the justices do some press and they typically say some media-bashing stuff like this—arguing that legal realism is something deceitful reporters made up and foisted on the people. washingtonpost.com/politics/court…
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The Michael Sussman indictment out of the Durham investigation, via the Washington Post. context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/def…
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