“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said last month that he wouldn’t allow the Senate to pass a bipartisan bill on computer chips if Democrats tried to revive their ‘Build Back Better’ agenda,” the HuffPost reports.
“On Wednesday, the Senate approved the bipartisan tech manufacturing bill, and hours later Democrats announced a breakthrough on their big domestic policy legislation.”
“In other words, McConnell’s gambit failed.”


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