CNN panel on Democrats 'ignoring' Biden ahead of infrastructure vote: 'It looks ineffective'
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A CNN panel agreed that the Democrats have "hurt themselves" with the constant bickering over and inaction on President Biden's Build Back Better plan and infrastructure package, the latter of which Congress passed Friday night only after months of deadlock.
The results of the Virginia gubernatorial election last Tuesday, when Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe, Haberman said, "made clear that the fact that nothing has gotten done is having a competency message for this White House."
The Democrats, she continued, have "hurt themselves" by not at least getting something passed a month ago, even if that meant a "scaled down" version of the president's ask.
Moderate Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin, W.Va., and Kyrsten Sinema, Ariz., told the president that his price tag has prevented them from giving him their support. And in a direct message on Capitol Hill last week, Manchin told his progressive colleagues who had been trying to hold the infrastructure bill "hostage" that they were acting in vain.