The Times reporting really is “am I taking crazy pills” inducing experience. Let’s review, this entire thing is the package Biden proposed in the Spring. When it became clear that the package would be broken into two separate bills he backed linking them together, one wouldn’t …
2/ pass without the other. Pelosi explicitly said this. The President endorsed it to clearly he actually got in a nick of trouble by putting it a bit too directly in the press conference announcing, saying he’d veto the BIF if it came to his deck without the recon bill.
3/ Linkage has been the explicit policy and goal of all the leaders. The came under threat with the mix of the deadline extorted by Josh Gottheimer and the refusal of the senate holdouts to negotiate. And it seemed like they might have to pass the BIF and take good faith …
4/ negotiations on recon on faith. But now linkage of some degree seems to have been revived. This is all very literally Biden affirming support for his own proposal and reaffirming - after several days of wobbling - his strategy for passing his proposal.
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