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There aren't enough Democrats in the Senate to actually stop them. Just slow things down so much that the Republicans need to pick and choose which ones they care enough to push through.
Seems like that would’ve been a GREAT strategy 100-some odds days ago.
It sure is neat how republicans can reliably stop democrats no matter how large a majority democrats have, but it never seems to work the other way.
They couldn't during 2021-2022 when Democrats had 50 seats in the Senate plus the VP. You could pass what the most conservative Democrat was willing to vote for then, so long as it was a budget reconciliation bill.
Which is why the national minimum wage is no longer 7.25 and BBB passed.
BBB became the Inflation Reduction Act. Its what Manchin would vote for.
The most conservative Democrat is far more conservative than you or I.
And centrists ran on the inflation reduction act in 2024, with no shame at all for what they stole from us. Because killing everything that had a direct tangible benefit to voters (except lowering the price of 10 drugs for boomers on medicare) was democrats' accomplishment.
Go ahead. Tell me how all the corporate handouts in the law will help individuals. Trickle down economics is so great.
It was far better than anything we got before in terms of environmental impact, even while not being enough:
The Republican effort to repeal it is (rightly) going to to be a real disaster, costing us not just a liveable future, but a lot of jobs in the near term.
I didn't mention environmental impact, now did I? I thought I was talking about direct individual benefits. You know, shit that makes a measurable impact on people's lives before the election? Something we can point to when people point out that things suck? Not just "be grateful you don't have it worse like other countries." Which is shit messaging to people who aren't making it, no matter how much it resonates with the out of touch overpaid consultants that control party messaging.
Even there, Manchin was a major problem. Almost all the Democrats wanted stuff like an expanded child tax credit, but Manchin announced that if parents had money, they'd all go out and buy meth, so he insisted on its removal from the bill before he would vote for it.
If it wasn't manchin, someone else would have rotated in.
Or...the actual problem is that every single republican is opposed to doing things that help Americans, so with a 50/50 Senate, it took buying off only one Democrat to force stuff out
The actual path to good policy is more and better Democrats. Enough that the failings of one or three can't sink legislation