we may be looking at an addition 6 trillion dollars in spending.

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K1052

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You do realize - reconciliation or not - they STILL need ALL 50 of their senators, right?

That's not exactly an easy task with Manchin and a few other fiscally-mindful democrats.

Again, what was the purpose of negotiating? It served none. It simply wasted American tax-payer time and money.

I mean politics? The Rs have to kill the deal they made and look like the bad guys. Manchin, Sinema, et al got their shot at bipartisanship so they're largely going to be satisfied and vote for a large reconciliation package. Republicans had their eyes open going in that the Dems would move reconciliation too despite what they're all about to say. It also remains to be seen if there are even 10 R votes for what they negotiated in the first place.
 

K1052

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Quoting this again.
So this occurred to me the other night, comparing Biden's deal making vs. Trump's.

Who would have thought that a guy who's spent multiple decades in the Senate has a better understanding of legislative politics and procedures, and how to work the system, than a guy who starred in a reality TV show?

Man. It's like one of them is a competent politician and the other isn't...

Fondly remember Trump blowing up his wall money deal by retrading Schumer basically to collapse legal immigration into the US in return for nothing.