Biden announces deal

[pecksniff]

Story.

Biden's remarks at the White House came after he traveled to Capitol Hill to make the case to House Democrats for the still-robust domestic package — $1.75 trillion of social services and climate change programs — that the White House believes can pass the 50-50 Senate.

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Together with a nearly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill heading for final votes possibly as soon as Thursday, Biden claimed a domestic achievement modeled on those of Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson.

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Paid family leave and efforts to lower prescription drug pricing are now gone entirely from the package, drawing outrage from some lawmakers and advocates.

Still in the mix, a long list of other priorities: Free prekindergarten for all youngsters, expanded health care programs — including the launch of a $35 billion new hearing aid benefit for people with Medicare — and $555 billion to tackle climate change.

There's also a one-year extension of a child care tax credit that was put in place during the COVID-19 rescue and new child care subsidies. An additional $100 billion to bolster the immigration and border processing system could boost the overall package to $1.85 trillion if it clears Senate rules.

With support for even the narrowed package still an issue, Biden said as he left the Capitol, “I think we’re going to be in good shape.”

Manchin, Sinema, don't fuck this up!

 

[CornusKousa]

Money better spent being burnt for warmth... at least then maybe someone other than some rich Democrats will benefit from it.

Hopefully the handful of still liberal democrats left do the right thing and put that shit down like a lame horse.

 

[Dribble]

Personally...I would not vote for this. Too much given up. Zero progressive agenda. Zero. Do it without us and see how you lose in 2022 and 2024. He compromised with 2 and lost 10.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Stick to your guns Manchin!!!


Expanding Medicare, even though the program is insolvent.

Let take care of the kiddos!!!! By giving them a 30 trillion dollar bill.

Oh, and climate change is caused by too many people, so lets pay people to have even more kids!!!!


It's bizzaro world

 

[pecksniff]

Personally...I would not vote for this. Too much given up. Zero progressive agenda. Zero. Do it without us and see how you lose in 2022 and 2024. He compromised with 2 and lost 10.

Art of the possible, you know.

Every item dropped will come back at some point. They are issues for a reason. They're not going away.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Biden announces “deal?” Deal with who? Without all 50 Senators and unified Dems in the House there is no deal.

 

[pecksniff]

Biden announces “deal?” Deal with who? Without all 50 Senators and unified Dems in the House there is no deal.

The House Dems will back it, and so will at least 48 Senators. The question is whether Manchin and Sinema will accept the deep compromise this amounts to.

 

[icanhelp1]

Money better spent being burnt for warmth... at least then maybe someone other than some rich Democrats will benefit from it.

Hopefully the handful of still liberal democrats left do the right thing and put that shit down like a lame horse.

50/50 senate and a 3 rep majority in the house and Dems think they have a mandate. LMFAO Biden’s Build back better plan is pound on the floor hilarious.

 

[Lazaran]

50/50 senate and a 3 rep majority in the house and Dems think they have a mandate. LMFAO Biden’s Build back better plan is pound on the floor hilarious.

When it ultimately passes, in whatever final form and at whatever final price tag, the one certainty is that triggered Deplorable republicans will "pound on the floor" and cry like the loser babies they are.

LMFAO indeed.

*chuckles*

 

[icanhelp1]

Story.



Manchin, Sinema, don't fuck this up!

When Biden says he thinks we’ll be in good shape ** RUN FOR THE HILLS **

 

[icanhelp1]

When it ultimately passes, in whatever final form and at whatever final price tag, the one certainty is that triggered Deplorable republicans will "pound on the floor" and cry like the loser babies they are.

LMFAO indeed.

*chuckles*

When your kids and grandkids go bankrupt paying for this shit we’ll see who cries like a baby. You anti American anti capitalist are trying so hard to sell this bucket of crap, more freebies for the sick, lame and lazy. Doesn’t look like Dems are getting anywhere fast.

 

[ll74]

Machine got Biden to speak up

Bully pulpit in ful effect.

Get it done

 

[ll74]

When your kids and grandkids go bankrupt paying for this shit we’ll see who cries like a baby. You anti American anti capitalist are trying so hard to sell this bucket of crap, more freebies for the sick, lame and lazy. Doesn’t look like Dems are getting anywhere fast.

My kids and grandkids will be paying for the wall long after they pay for this bill.

And they'll actually use the bridges and roads and other things in this bill

 

[pecksniff]

When your kids and grandkids go bankrupt paying for this shit we’ll see who cries like a baby. You anti American anti capitalist are trying so hard to sell this bucket of crap, more freebies for the sick, lame and lazy. Doesn’t look like Dems are getting anywhere fast.

Things in general go better in social democracies than here. Anything that brings America closer to that is worth doing.

 

[Dribble]

Art of the possible, you know.

Every item dropped will come back at some point. They are issues for a reason. They're not going away.

Why wait another 20 years for those issues to be dealt with? The party needs us MORE than we need them.

 

[Cubantripod]

Things in general go better in social democracies than here. Anything that brings America closer to that is worth doing.

The Nordic countries are cutting back on the social safety nets.

 

[Cubantripod]

Personally...I would not vote for this. Too much given up. Zero progressive agenda. Zero. Do it without us and see how you lose in 2022 and 2024. He compromised with 2 and lost 10.

The Dems are going to lose in 2022 because you all want to push the party to the left and spend like there's no tomorrow

 

[ll74]

The Nordic countries are cutting back on the social safety nets.

They're still miles further along than us...they aren't pulling back because it doesn't work

 

[Lazaran]

When your kids and grandkids go bankrupt paying for this shit we’ll see who cries like a baby. You anti American anti capitalist are trying so hard to sell this bucket of crap, more freebies for the sick, lame and lazy. Doesn’t look like Dems are getting anywhere fast.

^^^^^
Triggered Deplorable republican pounding on the floor like a loser baby.

FTW

 

[coati]

Things in general go better in social democracies than here. Anything that brings America closer to that is worth doing.

And with no actual majority in the Senate, that is about all Democrats can pull off at this point. I mean, let's face it, they don't have the majorities that FDR had. Ultimately, Sinema will be remembered as the Senator that killed prescription drug price reform in this bill, and Manchin will be remembered as the one who killed everything else.

But like someone said, the issues dropped from the bill are not going to disappear. Eventually, after people realize they are getting screwed by corporate-controlled medical plans and by the shittiest educational and economic infrastructure planning among the industrialized nations, they will quit the culture war crap and start voting for policies that actually improve their own daily lives. Are any of them going to get 21st century tools by bullying trans people or by imposing Sharia law on women?

Next, Democrats need to embarrass the crap out of Sinema and Manchin for supporting the Jim Crow filibuster rule in order to once again hold back voting rights. Time to work on that issue, again.

 

[Cubantripod]

They're still miles further along than us...they aren't pulling back because it doesn't work

Why are you fixing something that isn't broken?

 

[ll74]

Why are you fixing something that isn't broken?

Why do you think things aren't broken?

 

[RobDownSouth]

Stick to your guns Manchin!!!


Expanding Medicare, even though the program is insolvent.

Let take care of the kiddos!!!! By giving them a 30 trillion dollar bill.

Oh, and climate change is caused by too many people, so lets pay people to have even more kids!!!!


It's bizzaro world

Medicare is not insolvent.
Yet.

 

[coati]

Why do you think things aren't broken?

Amen. Our nation has one of the least educated populations in the world, and are being surpassed in manufacturing, energy transitioning, energy conservation, affordable housing, living wage structure, control of violent crime, civility, and health care coverage.

Just as an example, look at all the people who are getting screwed by corporate-held HMOs that withhold treatments and restrict people to a rapidly shrinking network of providers, while at the same time making people pay ridiculously high prescription drug prices and bilking the government out of Medicare funds by upgrading their risk scores based on phony "home health assessment" data.

 

[pecksniff]

The Dems are going to lose in 2022 because you all want to push the party to the left and spend like there's no tomorrow

If the Dems lose in 2022 it won't be for that reason.