Democrats Are in Disarray, or Maybe Just Negotiating
Threats are flying among party factions and headlines are blaring about Biden’s agenda in trouble. Maybe it is, but a lot of the noise is bluffing.
It’s never easy.
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Groups of congressional Democrats trekked down to the White House on Wednesday to meet with President Joe Biden in order to … well, no one is quite sure. Weeks ago, a wide range of outcomes seemed possible for the Democrats’ two-bill strategy for enacting bipartisan infrastructure legislation and a partisan care-and-climate-and-other-stuff-Democrats-like bill that is designed to pass through the reconciliation procedure which requires only a simple majority vote in the Senate. Today, as negotiations continue and threats fly and deadlines of a sort approach? A wide range of outcomes seems possible.