Even keeping in mind that the big reconciliation bill is still in the works, that “Before and After” shows the exact limits of the GOP’s willingness to bend. I’m going to guess that all of that funding will somehow benefit Mitch McConnell’s endangered Senators in 2022.
As I mentioned yesterday, I think Sinema has left herself some room to vote for the reconciliation bill. She just said she wouldn’t vote for that number. But I’m very concerned that what she is going to do it nix anything that was left out of the original proposal in the bipartisan bill as a “betrayal” of that agreement.
The Republicans are all kissing her feet and calling her a great negotiator, blah,blah, blah, giving her the credit for this bipartisan bill. I have to think that by making it her signature achievement they think they can get her to “protect” it by not voting for anything they negotiated out of it.
The only thing we have going for us, if so, is that Sinema is a total weirdo and I don’t think anyone knows exactly how she thinks or what she wants. So who knows?