The marriage between President Biden and the public is on the rocks. Many Democrats believe that his best chance at salvaging it is to enact as much as possible of his two-part, $4 trillion domestic agenda.
Few are betting that Biden will get all of it, and there's still a chance he could walk away with nothing. He is relying, as President Barack Obama often did, on Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to drive the most contentious parts of his agenda through the House. This is her biggest legislative test since the"The next few days will be a time of intensity," she wrote in a letter to House Democrats Saturday.
"There's no question we absolutely need both bills to pass," Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., said in a text exchange."If they don't, it will be a disaster for Dems in 2022. But if they pass, then Biden and congressional Dems will have achieved the most significant changes to our social safety net sinceBiden clearly sees his 2.0 version of Lyndon Johnson's safety-net expansion shrinking before his eyes. Centrist Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Krysten Sinema, D-Ariz.
In addition, Manchin, D-W.Va., has said he doesn't support the reconciliation bill's expanded Medicare benefits at a time when the program's hospital fund is due to run out of money in five years, and Sinema doesn't like the way the measureProgressives are furious at moderates' failure to offer concrete counterproposals, which makes it more difficult — if not impossible — to negotiate with them.
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