Key Takeaways

  • Manchin pulls plug on Biden/Democratic domestic agenda in Budget Reconciliation Build Back Better (BBB) bill; and Dems need to make sure Manchin stays in their caucus or risk seeing Mitch McConnell as Majority Leader.
  • Democrats have hailed BBB as the largest climate bill ever, but Joe Manchin represents a state where coal is critical to the economy.  Working in Congress I learned that rule number one is never vote against the core interests of your constituents.
  • Manchin joined Democrats to get 40 judges confirmed this year, the most judges since Reagan, while Trump in year one got 18.
  • Congress passes $2.5T debt ceiling increase that should carry government until 1Q22, and Defense money $25B more than Biden had requested. Defense bill passed with large bipartisan majorities.

Yesterday West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin put the $1.7T Biden/Democratic domestic agenda out of its misery by giving an unequivocal NO to the Build Back Better (BBB) plan.  As Democrats think about their response they would be well served to remember that Joe Manchin is the vote that makes Chuck Schumer rather than Mitch McConnell Leader of the Senate. Progressives and the White House attack Joe Manchin at their own peril.

Joe Manchin was a key negotiator in the $1T...

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