The Democrats cannot (but they will try) blame the failure to pass the infrastructure bills on the Republicans....
Accept it, Democrats. There are rules and you cannot get your way all the time....
Is Sinema wavering? I thought she was already a definite no on the "human" infrastructure crap sandwich....
"The policy changes of this proposal far outweigh the budgetary impact scored to it and it is not appropriate for inclusion in reconciliation."...
"Yet some in Congress have a strange belief there is an infinite supply of money to deal with any current or future crisis, and that spending trillions upon trillions will have no negative consequence for the future."...
Another point: Sen. Sinema is still a no on the $3.5 trillion "human" infrastructure bill....
The 17 Republican senators who supported this bill can never say they want a small government and call themselves a fiscal conservative....
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said she will not put the bipartisan infrastructure bill on the House floor until the Senate moves on the broader $3.5 trillion package"...
Republicans proving once again they love spending and big government just as much as the Democrats....
The Senate will encounter a few bumps during the debate and eventual final vote of the package....
The reconciliation bill is all about the "human infrastructure" the progressives and far-left cry about all the time: education, child care, family leave, etc....
You know this will keep the fight going over the filibuster. The Democrats and progressives will only apply more pressure on Dems. Manchin and Sinema....
"Problem for Schumer/Ds here isn't merely that this sinks S.1, which probably wasn't going anywhere, but that it denies them their preferred terrain to force Rs' hand on the filibuster."...
