“I hear all the folks on TV saying, ‘Why doesn’t Biden get this done?’” Biden moped in a speech in 2021 as Build Back Better was struggling to gain Manchin’s or Sinema’s support. “Well, because Biden only has a majority of effectively four votes in the House, and a tie in the Senate, with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends.” Not surprisingly, this is not true. According to FiveThirtyEight.com, Manchin and Sinema had voted with Biden’s position 100 percent of the time to that point. For context, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have each
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