Progressives are saying that Biden’s agenda is dying!

[Hardkill]

Sadly, the reconciliation bill will no longer have the following provisions:

Free community college 

Medical leave

Paid family leave

Medicare Expansion

Clean Electricity

The reasons these provisions will no longer be in the bill is because of the corrupt asshole, Manchin. He said that the clean ectricity provision will ruin the coal industry in West Virginia, including his precious coal company. Regarding both the paid leave and medical leave provisions as well as the Medicare Expansion, he says that we can't afford to pay for those things because our Medicare system "needs to be stabilized first," our country has too great of a national debt, and they may risk worsening the current inflation problem going on in our country. As for why he's not for free community college, he says that " free tuition for the first two years might not help students get through college and instead suggested making student loans for that period forgivable." 'Let them earn it. Don't give it on the front end. Let them earn it on the back end,' Manchin said."

Furthermore, because of the corporate donor whore, Sinema doesn't want corporate tax hikes, there will be no corporate tax hikes at all. Only a corporate minimum tax rate 15%.

Btw, the bipartisan infrastructure bill which the Senate already approved of through a bipartisan 69-to-30 vote, now needs to pass the House of Representatives chamber. Progressives have been saying for months that if that bill gets passed by the House, then Pelosi sends that bill to Biden’s desk, and he signs it into law, then it will allow the development of hard physical infrastructure throughout the whole country to be privatized, which would be terrible for the middle and lower class people of America.

Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer have already been accused by progressives as being too weak given how much they constantly concede to all of the corporate Dems in Congress.

This reconciliation bill was the one and only chance Biden and the Democrats had to get any truly transformative legislation passed through Congress and it was very likely the one and only chance Biden will ever have for his entire presidency to get any progressive legislation passed! Now, it looks Biden may not ever get any meaningful change made for this country.

What would the heroic legendary presidents of modern US History FDR and LBJ would do to make this right?

 

Edited October 28, 2021 by Hardkill

[Hardkill]

Why isn’t anybody on this forum saying anything about this disaster?

[Haribo]

Because it was already expected.

We wanted Biden because he was not trump, but he is your standard corporate dem.

Stage Orange incarnate, better than red, but still pretty bad.

[Hardkill]

Manchin killed the current version of the build back better bill.

 

Now, they're saying that Biden's legacy may be in serious jeopardy. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-faces-legacy-defining-challenge-salvaging-his-build-back-better-n1286534

 

[snowyowl]

He's a president in a democracy not a dictator. So if you voters don't elect enough congress-people and senators to support him, then his hands are tied. And you want them to be tied don't you? 

At the moment politics is fairly evenly split between liberal and conservative so the leaders don't get a free run to do what they want.