After months of haggling, start-stop negotiations, and absolutely asinine posturing, President Biden unveiled on Thursday a dramatically scaled-back version of his ambitious domestic policy slate. He also pointedly insisted Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.), the ostensibly Democratic holdouts who have repeatedly stymied his “Build Back Better” agenda, could and should vote for this new version of the bill in the Senate.
In a statement trumpeting the pared-down version of the president’s signature domestic promise, the White House made special effort to mention Manchin and Sinema by name as having participated in “good faith” negotiations with the administration, claiming “President Biden is confident this is a framework that can pass both houses of Congress.”
