Biden's agenda brings warring conservative factions together in quest to flip House
CNN
The US Chamber of Commerce last year endorsed 23 vulnerable freshman House Democrats -- the most in at least a decade -- and enraged House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and other top Republicans who accused their long-time big business allies of heresy.
A year later, the Chamber is now lobbying hard against the nearly $2 trillion centerpiece of President Joe Biden's agenda, the Build Back Better bill, which those Democrats who are still in Congress backed when it passed the House this month along party lines. Now it'll be extremely difficult for those same Democrats to earn the powerful business lobby's coveted endorsement in the 2022 midterms.
"Earlier this year the Chamber was clear: reconciliation was a deal breaker," said Ashlee Rich Stephenson, the group's senior political strategist, referring to the sweeping bill. "You have to earn the endorsement every cycle. ... Just because maybe you were supported once doesn't mean you will be next time."