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It's looking like Democrats will have to cut at least $1 trillion from their big social spending bill.

Here's what that means and why, if you support the spending, you can't have nice things 👇 buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmc…

First, a big note to the giant flashing $1,000,000,000,000 (and other numbers) in this thread. That's over 10 years, which is how Congress calculates the price. buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmc…

The Build Back Better Act, in its full $3.5 trillion form, has a lot of stuff packed into it, including:
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All of these cost hundreds of billions of dollars each, so trying to reduce the bill's size results in a choice:

1) Have the bill do a few things well, permanently, or:
2) Do more things but with less money and temporarily. buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmc…

If the Democrats control the Senate, why are we even looking at cutting Biden's No. 1 priority?

Because it's split 50-50, which means any one Democrat can tank the bill. And at least two senators say it's too big.
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Sen. Joe Manchin has expressed a willingness to compromise and put forward a $1.5 trillion proposal.

Kyrsten Sinema, the other senator, has said even less about her demands, at least publicly. buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmc…

Democracy! buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmc…