There is, Democrats swear, a Build Back Better deal to be made. It’s just a long, long way from what they’d hoped for
But what’s happening this time around doesn’t resemble the rounds of negotiations Democrats endured in the first year of Biden’s presidency. Instead, they seem resigned to build legislation around the whims of their fickle colleague from West Virginia. “We should pass whatever can pass — it’s as simple as that,” Sen. Brian Schatz says. “We are all using our brains and our egos to make this more complicated than necessary.
This effort has the side effect of rewarding Manchin for bad behavior. House Democrats passed a $2.2 trillion package that met most of Manchin’s demands last fall. All Senate Democrats had been prepared to pass it, too—until Manchin went onnegotiations dead. The West Virginia senator’s demands have ranged from inconsistent to elusive, and whichever policy is dominating headlines seems to dictate what Manchin rejects.
The whole process is a tough pill for the president to swallow: This next phase will put another deep cut in the transformational change he and his party pitched, and far from what Democrats had hoped to achieve in their once-in-a-long time unified control of government. Already the president has shrunk his ambitions from his $6 trillion opening bid down to $1.75 trillion to meet the demands of Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema .
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