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President Joe will not pass the 3.5 tril plan

Journal by fustakrakich

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday September 03 2021, @04:50PM (3 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday September 03 2021, @04:50PM (#1174113) Journal

    Last time Manchin pulled this trick he got a couple concessions added to the bill then voted for it.

    This is an aspirational fusty journal!

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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday September 03 2021, @04:59PM (2 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Friday September 03 2021, @04:59PM (#1174121) Journal

    he got a couple concessions

    :-) Yes, nice big ones to water it down to worthlessness. SNAFU

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    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday September 04 2021, @11:33AM (1 child)

      by khallow (3766) on Saturday September 04 2021, @11:33AM (#1174426) Journal
      Which you keep portraying as being some sort of problem. You have a point to these Manchin journals?

      • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday September 04 2021, @03:51PM

        by fustakrakich (6150) on Saturday September 04 2021, @03:51PM (#1174472) Journal

        Yeah, he's the guy the dems should be targeting as the main blockage to their "agenda", not the republicans. This is just part of their typical refusal to acknowledge their own failures they need to correct if they want to win more than 50%. The thing is, they don't, 50% is perfect for their blame game for reelection purposes

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