We knew he would. The reason we knew he would is because he wanted to. The Chamber of Commerce said no 14th Amendment and so he didn’t invoke it. These are the people he listens to. A neoliberal cannot change his spots–not in the clinches.
This is at least the second time that Biden has betrayed Pramilla Jayapal and the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Rep. Jayapal needs to tell the president that the CPC will not support him for reelection unless this bill is changed.
Remember: Biden did everything he could to shut the Democrats out of the sausage-making. Then he made sure that the Republicans received legislative text an entire day before the Democrats. In order to survive as a political party, the Dems must now expel a turncoat.
We can look forward now to the awful spectacle of Biden telling us that a spending freeze is not a spending cut.
The cuts will land most ruinously on people of color and the young–the two constituencies that put him over the finish line in 2020.
Way to go, bud.