Manchin says he supports core aspects of the bill. Biden must start from there and try...
President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Washington. With Washington’s — and the public’s — attention riveted on Ukraine and rising prices, especially at the gas pump, these past several weeks, it’s been easy to forget the litany of unsolved problems the United States still faces at home.
The changes are no less urgent, and the politics of passing them, no less difficult. Since Build Back Better was scuttled in December, America’s economic outlook has arguably gotten worse. Though his administration has added jobs, the price of nearly everything is rising sharply.Editorial: Bring Brittney Griner home — and then pay her more
That’s a far cry from the transformative agenda Biden proposed, and much less than the progressive wing of his party continues to clamor for. Indeed, many of the missing elements make Manchin’s narrower proposal a tough pill to swallow. The editorial board supported the goals of Build Back Better because we believe, as Biden does, that expanded investments in education, housing, health care and in women’s opportunities would have lifted millions of children and others out of poverty.
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