"Because the Democrats have a Senate majority, they only need 51 votes to pass the human infrastructure bill as part of a budget resolution."
Has the Senate parliamentarian ruled that the bigger bill could be passed via reconcilation? I thought the smaller bipartisan one got the nod, but the bigger bill hadn't come up in the Senate yet, being a creation of the House.
Here's the thing. When one or two senators are all that are preventing something then those two senators have a strong chance of pissing off everyone else. I get why Manchin is doing it and I'm not comparing the two but this really reminds me of what Ted Cruz did. I don't know what the affects will be but there are going to be a lot of POed progressives out there who may just decide to stay home. Whether that would matter in swing states or if it would just be more progressive states who knows. But I really don't think Manchin is saving anything.
"Because the Democrats have a Senate majority, they only need 51 votes to pass the human infrastructure bill as part of a budget resolution."
Has the Senate parliamentarian ruled that the bigger bill could be passed via reconcilation? I thought the smaller bipartisan one got the nod, but the bigger bill hadn't come up in the Senate yet, being a creation of the House.
Here's the thing. When one or two senators are all that are preventing something then those two senators have a strong chance of pissing off everyone else. I get why Manchin is doing it and I'm not comparing the two but this really reminds me of what Ted Cruz did. I don't know what the affects will be but there are going to be a lot of POed progressives out there who may just decide to stay home. Whether that would matter in swing states or if it would just be more progressive states who knows. But I really don't think Manchin is saving anything.