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Consider it dead, along with voting/medical rights, despite Pelosi's theatrical drama
Using a legislative maneuver called reconciliation, the budget resolution is protected from being filibustered in the Senate, allowing a simple majority to approve the legislation in each chamber.
With the evenly divided Senate, Manchin is a needed vote for Democrats. They can pass the budget bill with 50 votes, meaning all Democratic-voting senators need to vote "aye" because no Republicans are expected to support the massive legislation.
But, Manchin wrote Thursday, "I, for one, won’t support a $3.5 trillion bill, or anywhere near that level of additional spending, without greater clarity about why Congress chooses to ignore the serious effects inflation and debt have on existing government programs."
Wall Street bailouts (roughly 3.5 trillion every two and a half years)? No problem
Probably just as good, we're not supposed to have that much pork in our diets anyway.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 03 2021, @07:22PM
Really? Well, golly gee then we'd also better prepare twenty-one gun salutes for President Harris, because she has a tie-breaker vote. And President Snowe, because she could turn around and vote for things that Joe Manchin isn't. And, for that matter, President Rand Paul.
Starting to find a lot of presidents, now that we're poking under large, flat rocks to see what crawls out. Oh, hey there, president McConnell!
Whenever you have tight votes, you have holdouts. That doesn't make the president of anything except their own vote. Just as President Sinema if you don't believe me. President Cantwell will back me up on this one, too.