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.
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