Democrats can’t half-fund social programs, writes jonathanchait
For more than half a year, Joe Manchin has been haunting the Democratic Party’s dreams. The West Virginia Senator’s stream of evasive, semi-intelligible, frequently inhumane pronouncements have left the Biden presidency in a suspended state of half-death, half-life.
Specifically, the child-care, pre-kindergarten, and Obamacare-expansion funding in the bill would end after 2025. Democrats have been waving off this feature as a minor flaw. It is not a minor flaw. It is a gigantic problem with the bill. They are attaching a self-destruct button onto some of the most important elements in the legislation, all but guaranteeing they will disappear, unless Democrats somehow hold on to both houses of Congress as well as the presidency in four years.
One reason Democrats find themselves in this pickle is Manchin himself, who has opposed many of the tax increases they have put on the table that would allow for funding a complete version of Biden’s program. But given the shrunken tax revenue Manchin and Sinema are offering, they haven’t been able to agree among themselves which programs to prioritize.
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