This is just going to make it ever HARDER to get the $3.5 Trillion I think

[Celerity]

15. In terms of money totals the progs have compromised 30.8 times MORE than Manchin and Sinema have

for both bills combined, if you count from their initial proposals back in winter and spring of 2021.

15.2 times more if you count it from when they agreed to accept Biden's original numbers (they did that months ago). That is if the BBB stays at its already 50% gutted $1.75 topline number.

Manchin was just on live and was gobbing on in true austerity ghoul fashion about debt, too much social programmes breeding an entitlement society, inflation etc etc, and how the BBB process needs to be slowed down, and all that whilst still demanding the BIF be passed now.

I full expect him to start to revisit his 'strategic pause until 2022' bollocks about the BBB soon, and IF the BIF is passed with no agreement, he likely digs up his original '$1 trillion total spend for the BBB' posturing from the crypt.