The Build Back Better Bill is the biggest political achievement project that Sleepy Joe has pushed for since taking office. Abbreviated as BBB Act.

In order to save the bad rice economy, it plans to spend 3.5 trillion yuan, mainly in social policies and climate and environmental protection policies.

Well, very Democratic strategy.

However, the bill has not been smooth, from 3.5 trillion yuan at the beginning to 1.75 trillion yuan today, and the magnitude and scope of investment are also shrinking sharply.

But even so, there is still a danger of premature death.

The reason is also quite strange......

There are traitors in the party!

After the 2020 election, Republicans won 50 Senate seats, Democrats 48, and the other two were won by candidates who are independent of the two parties but leaning towards the Democratic Party.

Overall, the two parties are evenly divided in the Senate.

The Republican Party, of course, is strictly guarding against the BBB bill.

According to the original thinking of Ardennes and the Democratic Party, 48+2 is stable.

Then go to the Republican camp and dig up one or two votes, and the bill will pass.

This kind of operation is actually quite common.

For example, when Achuan nominated two justices, Democratic senators voted to approve them.

They say that they are defending the judicial dignity of the United States or something, but in fact, what the two sides are talking about under the table is what kind of price they are talking about, and it is good for each other to know what it is.

However, in the general environment of party unity and disagreement, it is still difficult to poach votes across party lines.

The most classic is the financial tsunami of '08, when Republican Treasury Secretary Paulson did not hesitate to kneel on one knee for Crazy Nancy in front of everyone, in order to beg her to open up in the House of Representatives and agree to the bailout plan, but in the end it failed.

Party spirit is the most important thing.

On the Republican side, after losing the president and the House of Representatives, the parity in the Senate is the only hole card, so it is natural to pay attention to it.

Although Mickey and John Thune, the No. 1 and No. 2 men in the Senate, do not deal with Mr. Chuan, the two sides still have a tacit understanding on this kind of issue.

Mr. Chuan went around to expose and criticize the old coercion for betraying the country and wasting taxpayers' money, the party whip tried to restrain the party and strictly prohibit the appearance of treachery, and Mi Qi made efforts to set the Senate agenda and delayed or even vetoed the bill through legal means.

Coupled with the previous Liz Cheney's exit, there are people on the Republican side who want to be traitors, and they have to weigh the cost.

At least the Republican Party is fairly united for now.

The Democrats had a hard time, they didn't expect that this time it was their own people who caused trouble for the BBB bill.

West Virginia Senator Joe Machin, said that this name is easy to turn into a machine if you are not careful.

Macin means monkey in English, and Machin is indeed quite a monkey, and Biden and the Democratic Party are miserable when they toss alone.

Originally, as a 1/100 member of Congress, although he was honorable, he was nothing compared to the bigwigs in the party.

But right now in the Senate, it's more popular than anyone else.

Almost single-handedly, the process of the BBB bill was stuck.

According to the normal process of the United States, the president on behalf of the executive has introduced the bill - this process has involved a huge game between the two parties and the party, and the bill is usually not too extreme to ensure the interests of all parties, especially the major factions in the party.

After the two houses pass it, it can be officially implemented.

The House of Representatives, under the control of Nancy, belongs to the Democratic Party's private estate, the Senate...... Ahem...... It was also said above.

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Machin became a key figure, picking and choosing between the bills from the beginning, and for this reason, Lao Qiden did not hesitate to put down his body and personally invite him to talks, walks, eat, and all kinds of overtures.

And the content of the bill has repeatedly made concessions.

But Mechin never relented.

A big reason for this is that he represents the state of West Virginia.

It's a traditional blue state.

But it's different from the average blue state.

In the 2020 general election, the state voted for Achuan.

What's even worse is that Jim Justice, then governor of the country in 17, openly participated in the MAGA convention, and also openly betrayed the party at the congress and joined the Achuan camp......

surprise！

Later, after the 2020 election, he refused to admit that someone had won, compared with a small group of Republicans in the party, this uncle surnamed Justice is really up to that.

Now the situation is more interesting, there is one senator in both parties, the governor is in the second and fifth boys, and the whole state is starting to turn red, as for the state legislature and the executive branch, it goes without saying that there are more red than blue.

At present, it is estimated that there is a gambling company opening, when will Master Mechin go to the MAGA conference and announce his betrayal......

West Virginia was originally part of western Virginia.

The capital city of Charleston, I estimate that 99% of people are not impressed.

But the ancestors of the family have been wide, in "Gone with the Wind", the southern big city second only to the hungry wolf, the hometown of the hero Bai Ruide - Cao's Tun.

In this way, everyone should be a little impressed.

During the Civil War, Virginia's attitude was to support the North if there was no war, and to join the Confederate Army if it started, which was very sentimental, but politically it looked quite patterned, and there were still remnants of the romanticism of the feudal era.

"Revolution is not a dinner party, a fuss, a painting and embroidery, it can't be so elegant, so calm, so polite, so gentle and courteous." A revolution is an insurrection, a violent act by which a class overthrows a class".

At both ends of the fierce mass movement, they still think they occupy justice...... Latecomers can only spread their hands when they see it.

Of course, not everyone thought so, and after the war began, the heroes in the western counties of Virginia who did not suffer the immediate losses immediately announced their withdrawal from Virginia and joined the northern government instead.

From turning red, and then to the 20s of the last century, it began to turn blue, and now there is reddening is also the cycle of history.

By the way, among the Democratic congressmen who voted in favor of President Chuan when he nominated the justices, there was Mr. Mechin.

This time, Mei Chin went directly to Fox, the official media of President Sichuan, and admitted in an interview that he would vote against the BBB bill in the Senate.

Now the American media has dubbed him the immediate/interim president – because he almost single-handedly repealed the president's elaborate bills.

The White House team was furious about this, publicly calling him a liar.

As for why Mitchin would be so opposed to his own party?

The answer is simple: oil companies are the bulk of his campaign funding, and his own family owns a lot of coal stocks.

Ahem, the US imperialist coal boss is also very powerful.

Off topic.

In the face of Mechin's "treacherous" behavior.

The reaction of the Democratic Party was very interesting, not to look for its own reasons, but to begin to cry out "how can a person who has only received 290,000 votes make a choice for 8,100 party members?" We need to correct this institutional error. ”

You see, it's still the same old routine, everything is a matter of the system......