Tag: reconciliation

The Sausage Making: House Democrats Gang Up To Remind Everyone They Still Care About Climate

By Kate Riga | January 31, 2022 6:00 p.m.

The Sausage Making: Manchin Takes His Revenge

By Kate Riga | January 20, 2022 5:02 p.m.

The Sausage Making: Biden Says He And Manchin ‘Are Going To Get Something Done’

By Kate Riga | December 21, 2021 6:04 p.m.

The Sausage Making: Even Moderates Are Pissed At Manchin

By Kate Riga | December 20, 2021 6:08 p.m.

Jayapal Calls On Biden To Do As Much As He Can Through Executive Action, Citing Manchin’s ‘Lack Of Integrity’

By Kate Riga | December 20, 2021 4:00 p.m.

Gloomy Economic Forecasts Follow Manchin’s Build Back Better Blowup

By Kate Riga | December 20, 2021 12:02 p.m.

The Sausage Making: Senate Democrats Wrap Up 2021 On A Sour Note

By Kate Riga | December 17, 2021 10:16 a.m.

Why Spending $2 Trillion On Child Care, Health Care And Fighting Climate Change Won’t Make Inflation Any Worse Than It Already Is

By Michael Klein | December 16, 2021 5:56 p.m.

Listen To This: Time To Get Creative

By Jackie Wilhelm | December 16, 2021 1:21 p.m.

A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss the seeming “punt” of the reconciliation bill and how Democrats can still generate forward momentum.

You can listen to the new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast here.

Was BBB Doomed As Soon As BIF Passed?

By David Kurtz | December 16, 2021 11:39 a.m.

TPM Reader PT checks in on Manchin, BBB, and the current swoon:

For pretty much the entire time of the Biden Administration legislative activity, I’ve been of the opinion that the whole issue of the BBB was best understood as a kind of culture war. The problem that the Manchin caucus really has with the BBB is that it represents a Democratic Party in which the moderate / conservative / Manchin caucus is not firmly in the driver seat all the time, for all things.