Hill watch: Blowing Up GOP’s Reason To Deal
Sen Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) recently said of the chances for his party’s $3.5 trillion social-spending bill that “if the bipartisan infrastructure bill falls apart, everything falls apart” — and that made it clear that “any Republican who votes for the bipartisan charade is greasing the wheels for Democrats to ram through their entire agenda,” warns National Review’s Philip Klein. GOP supporters of the negotiations claim they’re key to stopping the liberal wish-list measure, when in fact failure would mean progressive Democrats combine all the spending and “moderates will have to consider swallowing a massive $4.1 trillion bill.”