Manchin and Sinema's reluctance to fully embrace Biden's plan set off a domino series of events that sent Biden to overseas summits empty handed and left the party portrayed as in disarray. But the two Democratic Senate holdouts Manchin and Sinema responded - maybe, maybe not.
"It’s sort of stunning to me that we’re in this place,” exasperated Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., told reporters late Thursday as the House adjourned.īiden arrived that morning on Capitol Hill triumphant in announcing a historic framework on the bill that he claimed would get 50 votes in the Senate. Democrats are struggling in governor's races next week in Virginia and New Jersey, where safe victories might have been expected. The fast-moving - then slow-crawling - state-of-play in Congress puts the president and his party at significant political risk.īiden’s slipping approval rating and the party’s own hold on Congress are at stake with the 2022 midterm election campaigns soon underway. “So you got to get through the complicated - the last 10%, as you know, is always the most difficult.” Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.
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