Details are starting to emerge about what the 50th critical vote, otherwise known as Senator Joe Manchin, wants axed or changed in the Biden budget. Two areas in particular will be the focus of negotiations over the next weeks: Climate Change and the Child Tax Credit. On each issue, Manchin recently has drawn some lines in the sand, and negotiators are scrambling to find common ground.
Manchin made the point that if you want to pass a more progressive agenda, get more progressives in your caucus. In essence, he and Simena aren't the issue. The issue is a razor-thin majority coalition that will NOT be able to achieve everything on the Biden agenda.
Pass legislation helping poor and middle-class families right now, so they feel the impact in their lives and their wallets. Child Tax Credit, pre-k, healthcare, other relatively quick moves. People - voters - need to know what's at stake in '22: what the GOP will take away, or what it will never do, to help ordinary folks if Dems lose next year.
Manchin made the point that if you want to pass a more progressive agenda, get more progressives in your caucus. In essence, he and Simena aren't the issue. The issue is a razor-thin majority coalition that will NOT be able to achieve everything on the Biden agenda.
Suck it up. Get the job done as best you can.
Pass legislation helping poor and middle-class families right now, so they feel the impact in their lives and their wallets. Child Tax Credit, pre-k, healthcare, other relatively quick moves. People - voters - need to know what's at stake in '22: what the GOP will take away, or what it will never do, to help ordinary folks if Dems lose next year.