Obviously we'll see soon enough, but are we 100.0% convinced Manchin just killed BBB? His statement led with "cannot vote to continue," which sounds like whether to start debate on the current bill (which he was against).
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1472574357864173570?s=20
Now, he used some really strong "can't get there" language--so maybe it's the whole thing, not just the House blueprint. But you can also construe his comments to still allow for, say, 1.7bn over 10 years with fully funded programs, as he's implied before. Worth clarifying
After all, he later leveled his long-standing critique of the House bill: it didn't fully fund programs, but instead partially funded a bunch of things.
Perhaps it still leaves the door open for fully funded/prioritized bill, as he's argued over and over
Perhaps it still leaves the door open for fully funded/prioritized bill, as he's argued over and over
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1472579014099456011?s=20
To this point, I think he's been fairly consistent about the basics of what he wants, and we've been going through a very slow process of progressives learning, bit by bit, they can't move him far off of it
https://twitter.com/BostonSucksCack/status/1472582652213350404?s=20
Still not quite definitive, but the justification here seems closer to a clear no (as most of the arguments are about spending in general, not about the structure of the bill or something)
https://twitter.com/josh_wingrove/status/1472585636712488961?s=20
Anyway, time will tell. He's done this bit before and it ended in a spot Democrats were fine with (kill HR1, but then write a bill on his own terms), so we'll just have to wait and see. Usually he puts out the 'optimistic' signal/path forward fairly quickly
or perhaps the path forward has already been put out
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1472583387810574336?s=20
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