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.
Lmao, so the 'groundbreaking' 3.5 trillion over 10 years is already down to 1.75 huh
They're just going to keep spinning their wheels on this until they lose the Senate and go "oh well, we tried"
I feel like that “over 10 years” part really isn’t stressed enough. This was NEVER a $3.5T bill - At it’s highest this was a $350B bill, AKA “not even half of what we spend on murdering brown people every year”
Well it's much easier to cut a $3.5 trillion spending package than it is to cut down on a Bill that is only about 1.5 percent of GDP
It started at 6 trillion.