Manchin is demanding progressive lawmakers give in.

As if they haven’t already given enough.

Lauren Elizabeth

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Virtually everything that the left has predicted would happen to the reconciliation bill has happened or is in the process of unfolding. No matter how much of it we might have seen coming, that hasn’t made watching it occur in real time any less infuriating or, frankly, painful. Among those who has earned the…

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Lauren Elizabeth

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