Each time Build Back Better is redesigned in a way that suits Manchin’s mood, the progressive wing of the party loses more of its priorities.
, the White House released an upbeat statement asserting that the president had successfully negotiated a Build Back Better framework with Sen. Joe Manchin and other recalcitrant Democratic senators. It was, of course, wildly optimistic. Two months later, having already negotiated the size of Biden’s signature legislation down from more than $3 trillion to not much more than half that amount, SenatorThe demise of Build Back Better represented, for Biden, a humiliation.
Senator Manchin, who is reveling in the outsized power that his opposition to BBB has generated for him, , so as to fast-track hundreds of billions of dollars of clean energy investments and tax credits, in particular.
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