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Lol wot?!?!
That's being willfully ignorant on their part.
Biden was being generous enough to give the GOP a bill they can sign off on. Everyone knows the Progressive's won't sign off on this unless they get the bigger bill in reconciliation.
Why is that willfully ignorant? This is making it an all or nothing proposition and the bipartisan deal actually was going to possibly help them craft something in reconciliation that Manchin could get on board with. It makes it more complicated trying to pass it all there.
I think I talked to @Jack V Savage about this a few months back where farther left politicians sometimes shoot themselves in the foot forcing things into all or nothing propositions that just end up with nothing. It’s possible something clean is crafted in recon but the ultimatum definitely changed the setting.