STFU Mitch:
“Republicans have been negotiating in bipartisan good faith to meet the real infrastructure needs of our nation. The President cannot let congressional Democrats hold a bipartisan bill hostage over a separate and partisan process.”
“Unless Leader Schumer and Speaker Pelosi walk-back their threats that they will refuse to send the president a bipartisan infrastructure bill unless they also separately pass trillions of dollars for unrelated tax hikes, wasteful spending, and Green New Deal socialism, then President Biden’s walk-back of his veto threat would be a hollow gesture.”
No, no, no. You don’t get to decide what Pelosi and Schumer say to their own members which is what this is all about.
Mitch will never go along with any of this, that’s a given. He is trying to blow the whole thing up because that’s what he does. The real question is whether there were ever 10 Republicans on board with this infrastructure plan and if there ever will be. In the end, in my view it’s always been about whether Joe Manchin will hold the line and make it clear he’ll pass the “bipartisan” bill through reconciliation if the Republicans don’t want a piece of it. That’s it. And I think Mitch knows it.
The Reconciliation piece of it has nothing to do with him and isn’t really his business.