How will Democrats revive Joe Biden's Build Back Better Bill?

It's certain that Democrats aren't finished attempting to drag Joe Biden's Build Back Better Bill across the finish line. Democrats have invested too much to quit at this point. Russ Vought's op-ed, though, makes it difficult for Democrats to get away with stuffing $5,000,000,000,000 of spending into a bill with a price tag of $1,750,000,000,000.

It's difficult because hardline progressive Democrats, aka Democrat Socialists, don't want to eliminate any of their wish list items from this bill. Appearing on America Reports this afternoon, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke to that point. This is what Sen. McConnell said:

"[Leader Schumer] can bring it up any time he wants to and he’s signaling they will try to convince the American people we ought to have the federal government take over all of our elections as well. I don't think they are giving up. They are what they are. They’re the party of Bernie Sanders these days. They’re going to keep pursuing that.
But I digress. Here's what Vought wrote:
Manchin’s demands imposed a $1.75 trillion cap on the bill’s overall footprint. But Democrats hoped that this budget constraint was merely a talking point rather than a real limit on their spending ambitions. Instead of cutting programs out of their bill, they aimed to hide the real costs of their full agenda, hoping that through manipulation of the budget scoring rules they could squeeze nearly $5 trillion of actual spending into a $1.75 trillion budget scoring straitjacket.

The most egregious of the gimmicks they employed to satisfy Manchin was the arbitrary "sunset" of several of the bill's most important provisions, from its child care program for two-earner households to its expanded ObamaCare spending and subsidies for high-tax state governments.

A similar sunset applied to one of the bill's signature programs, an expanded child tax credit to cover non-working families, including illegal immigrants.

It's understatement to say that Democrat Socialists aren't skilled negotiators. They're more into intimidating squishes into capitulation. It isn't likely that Democrats will win this fight. That's because BBB contains a huge tax hike. It isn't that Democrats oppose hiking taxes. It's that they prefer hiking taxes right after an election, not right before an election. Here's the video of McConnell's interview with Sandra Smith:

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