Biden Thread

[spmetla]

I just hope they start focusing more on that debt-ceiling than anything else. Getting angry that the Build Back Better (B3) bill might be smaller than ideal in order to get the support to raise the debt ceiling is more of the dangerous brink-man ship that makes our politics a gridlock.

I know you folks have told me time and again how it's better to put lots of items into one giant bill but I still look at the current mess and have to disagree.
How about we pass something to raise the debt ceiling, then the infrastructure, and then perhaps break up the B3 bill into separate ones, yes there will be give and take but if these all or nothing games end up with nothing to show for then perhaps compromise would've been the better option. I support a lot of the progressive items in the B3 bill but there's no need to do it all at once. Put the most important ones in first and save the controversial ones for later. If they are the success we want them to be then the gains in the 2022 elections should be proof of that. The infrastructure bill could have been passed months ago and to see it possibly go to nothing as a victim to the B3 bill is infuriating.
The idea that we'll have another fund the government drama again in December is frustrating and that's assuming we don't default on our debts in October.