Charlie Cook: “What is surprising, at least to me, is just how Biden and his White House have been playing this over the last week, especially compared with how he portrayed himself during the campaign. While ‘take it or leave it’ demands are certainly not new to politics or the legislative process, it is rather odd that the White House’s initial offer has also become its final demand.”
“Democrats’ immediate and instinctive threat to ram their package through using the budget-reconciliation process, which would require only a simple majority rather than a filibuster-proof supermajority, was tone deaf to say the least. One might have assumed that Biden had made a campaign pledge to never negotiate with Republicans.”
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