The Biden Administration Is Officially Out of Ideas
Joel B. Pollak 17 Dec 2021
This past week, Democrats shelved the so-called “Build Back Better” bill until next year, after it failed to gain the support of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV).
Because the Senate is split 50-50 between the parties, Manchin’s vote is crucial. Given that every Republican plans to oppose the multi-trillion dollar bill, which will evade the 60-vote filibuster rule through “reconciliation,” every Democrat’s support is needed to match the GOP and allow Vice President Kamala Harris to cast the tie-breaking vote.
The bill was not originally Biden’s own. At first, it was a $3.5 trillion plan drafted by socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who heads the Senate Budget Committee. It was a vehicle for the utopian social programs and “Green New Deal” initiatives that Sanders and the “progressive” left had dreamed of implementing, but which were left out of Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Biden only adopted it later, lending it his 2020 slogan, making it the centerpiece of his political agenda.
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