And so Bill to start here, why do we keep hearing this? That a deal is just around the corner, if these factions in the Democratic party are farther apart than they seem?īill McGurn: Well, I think, one, there's a lot of wishful thinking about this that they can get it done. So each time I hear, well, it's almost done, I don't know what the hell people are talking about.' Unquote. He said, 'There's just huge pieces of this that are not nailed down.
The headlines keep saying that a deal is just around the corner here, but to my eye, there are still a lot of Democratic factions that are at fundamental odds with each other.Īnd I'll read a quote from Jeff Merkley, the Oregon Senator. We're joined today by my colleagues, WSJ columnists Bill McGurn and Kim Strassel. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. Kyle Peterson: Democrats in Congress are still at odds over many pieces of their reconciliation bill, with President Biden about to leave the country and an October 31st deadline looming.
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