Paid leave is just the latest party priority Democrats have removed from the bill because of opposition from their centrist members. Democrats have let go of free community college, a program aimed at pushing utilities to generate more clean energy and a series of top marginal-tax-rate increases in recent days.
You’d think their willingness to drop these proposals demonstrates how little they were attached to them and could then be used to show a lot of people where the real problem is.
Manchin and Senema just exist to be a backstop while the Dems slough off the parts of their platforms they used to get elected
I mean we all know that