Reporter's Notebook: Build Back Better budget fight returns, this time amid more inflation
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Democrats are proposing another social spending package — a Build Back Better incarnation — before Sept. 30, but once again Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., could stand in the way
The breadth of the bill was exhaustive, and progressives still wanted a larger bill. But Democratic leaders were finally able to whittle it down to $2 trillion, chipping away at the price of the package even more — dropping it under $2 trillion.
And then Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., killed the measure last December.
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