Joe Biden’s Agenda Is Hanging By A Thread As Democrats In Congress Threaten To Tank Two Major Bills

President Joe Biden and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema after a meeting about infrastructure negotiations at the White House

Democrats came out of the summer with high hopes of passing a broad slate of reforms to institute paid family leave, lower prescription drug costs, reform the immigration system, invest in green energy, and expand the Affordable Care Act all in one omnibus bill called the Build Back Better Act. Democrats have a razor-thin majority in the Senate and not much more than that in the House, meaning they will need to get almost every member of their party on the same page.

The infrastructure bill, which was already passed by the Senate before summer break, is supposed to go to the House floor by next Monday. It’s anyone’s guess whether that will actually happen. But if an agreement isn’t reached, Democrats could come away with nothing, which could be a disastrous failure for Biden’s first year in office.

The person who determines what is and is not a budget item is Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough. She delivered a blow to Democratic hopes Sunday by ruling that their plan to pass a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients is not a budget item and cannot be included in the bill. She has previously nixed raising the minimum wage for the same reason.

This pic makes it look like Joe wants to get a private room with Senator Sinema.

If it fails, I hope Biden has the balls to point the finger directly at these two senators, call them out by name and publicly shame them. None of the 'my dear friend, senator blah blah' bull crap..

Legislation too popular to fail, so this posturing is really fucking stupid, but here we are.

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