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25. but he said no to a vote atm on the bi-partisan bill, not until there is an agreement

Why are you so anxious to put a HUGE part of Biden's agenda at greater risk?

There is no danger to the bi-partisan bill atm.

Massive leverage will be lost if the bi-partisan bill is passed with no agreement to also pass the reconciliation bill.

The bi-partisan bill has FAR less immediate impact than the reconciliation bill does. Much of the bi-partisan bill doesn't kick in until after the midterms.

Manchin and Sinema already helped strip out almost 80% of Biden's agenda (the new spend + his environmental tax credits) from the bi-partisan bill. They reduced it from $2.6 trillion all the way down to $550 billion. The other $650 billion in the bi-partisan bill is simply renewal of long standing programmes (mostly transportation related) already in place under Trump.

The Infrastructure Plan: What’s In and What’s Out (it's brutal)

Biden's original plan:



What was left after they took a 2 trillion USD hatchet to it




They already chopped almost EIGHTY percent of actual new spending out of the hard infrastructure bill and now Manchin wants to chop another almost 60 to 70% out of the even bigger bill, one that needs ZERO Rethugs votes to pass, plus as of yesterday is till talking about pushing it to 2022.


The total new spending on Biden's original 2 bill proposals (hard and human) was $6.1 trillion.

IF Manchin and Sinema stick to their guns and chop out $2 trillion to $2.5 trillion of of the reconciliation bill, then you are looking at a total new spend for both bills of only $1.55 trillion to $2.05 trillion instead of $6.1 trillion.

That is a truly massive 2/3rds to 3/4ers total reduction in new spending when both bills are tallied up, and the vast majority will be from the parts the vast majority of ALL Dems all desperately want, especially things to address climate change and to help working class Americans. Pete DeFazio, the Chair of the House Transportation Committee has been very, very unhappy for ages about what the bi-partisan Senators did.