.MaddowBlog: Is an ambitious Build Back Better package on track to pass? No. Are the odds of success better than they were 72 hours ago? Yes.
shortly before Thanksgiving, for example, and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia seemed to endorse the party's timetable for a pre-Christmas Senate vote, it appeared the bill was on track to succeed.was whether Congress' most conservative Democrat was saying no toof the BBB agenda.
According to the reporting, Manchin spoke early on, reiterated his BBB concerns, and listened as others said their piece. He also apparently stillrolling back the Republicans' Trump-era tax breaks, which is a fine idea his Democratic colleagues would gladly endorse — if only Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema would go along.
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