Sahil Kapur

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

As the mega-bill shrinks, @RepJayapal says the CPC still sees it as linked to infra. "It's really important that we understand the thin margins in the House and Senate do mean that all of us have to be on board. That is still our position: the two move together or not at all." — PolitiTweet.org

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🚨 @BernieSanders on including Medicare dental, vision and hearing benefits in the mega-bill: "This to me is not negotiable. This is what the American people want." @RepJayapal chimes in: "That is the position of the House progressive caucus." — PolitiTweet.org

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Big: @RepJohnYarmuth won't run for re-election. He's currently the House Budget Committee chairman. https://t.co/i5IS8g62TL — PolitiTweet.org

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

Useful clarification from Pelosi's office — her position on how to shrink the $3.5 trillion bill is that some dates will move around, and some programs will be cut. Both. — PolitiTweet.org

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

Speaker Pelosi gives a thumbs up to legislation by @RepBrendanBoyle and @RepJohnYarmuth that would end the debt ceiling as we know it — by transferring the authority to lift it from Congress to Treasury. "I think it has merit," she tells reporters. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mitchellreports: .@sahilkapur: "...the difficulty Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell had in supplying votes to break a filibuster… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mitchellreports: On House vote today/debt ceiling, @sahilkapur: "We expect the House to pass that short-term debt ceiling bill to exten… — PolitiTweet.org

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Pelosi grins when she’s asked what program will be the first to go in order to cut the price tag. “You must be kidding.” She says that’s part of the negotiation and won’t discuss it publicly. She does note that some dates will be moved up to lower cost. — PolitiTweet.org

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Speaker Pelosi refers to the filibuster as "the present custom" in the Senate. — PolitiTweet.org

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

Pelosi said some lawmakers have written back to her and said they want all the programs. As for timeline for passage, she is "optimistic we'll get to where we need in a timely fashion." On divisions: "We are a Democratic Party. We are not a rubber-stamp or lockstep party." — PolitiTweet.org

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

Pelosi doesn't get into which programs will be cut to make the price tag but there are "choices to be made." She says child care and universal pre-K go together, for e.g. "Mostly we would be cutting back on years." She says others have told her they want all the programs. — PolitiTweet.org

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Speaker Pelosi calls for bipartisan support on today's short-term debt limit bill in the House, ticks some consequences of failure. (A couple weeks ago, the only Republican who voted for a longer-term bill was Adam Kinzinger.) — PolitiTweet.org

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.@SpeakerPelosi on Build Back Better: "We have some important decisions to make in the next few days so we can succeed." She says she's "very disappointed" the package won't be the full $3.5 trillion. But: "It will be transformative. It will produce results." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Victoria_Eavis: NEW: The Cheney campaign raised $1.7 million this past quarter, the second-most in the campaign’s history. 1.7 mil for… — PolitiTweet.org

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And some of the goals in Biden’s agenda have inherent tension. For instance, expanding access to child care while raising pay for caregiving workers. It’s hard to do both unless you pour a lot of money into it. — PolitiTweet.org

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Good illustration of the policy conundrum Democrats face. A number of the items in Biden’s agenda are designed to go together; cutting out some complicates others. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ShaneGoldmacher that url, tho — PolitiTweet.org

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

Here's an example of where the progressives vs. moderates frame doesn't cut it. If 83% of Americans favor an idea, is it "moderate" to oppose it? If ~95% of lawmakers in a party support that idea and a few don't, are the latter seeking common ground or preventing it? — PolitiTweet.org

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PELOSI tells Democrats that to pass Biden’s agenda, “it is essential that difficult decisions must be made very soon.” She weighs in on the fewer/longer vs. many/temporary programs debate: “Overwhelmingly, the guidance I am receiving from Members is to do fewer things well.” https://t.co/DeOjhtXAES — PolitiTweet.org

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“Bottom line: If a losing president refuses to concede, if that same former president only gets stronger and stronger inside his party, and if many in that same party believe that Jan. 6 wasn’t a big deal, then we have a really significant problem on our hands.” — PolitiTweet.org

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politics twitter in a nutshell — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JuliePace: DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican Sen. Charles Grassley and Gov. Kim Reynolds embraced Donald Trump’s return to Iowa on Sat… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @billscher: Biden didn’t lean hard into it either — PolitiTweet.org

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Yes, that is the difference — PolitiTweet.org

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This argument is directed at one man—Joe Manchin, who also didn’t like Schumer’s comments—in the hope that he pressures Democrats to use reconciliation next time. To think a party would cast votes on a matter of this gravity based on a mean speech is to infantilize that party. — PolitiTweet.org

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

Under-appreciated insight about the 2012 campaign. As much as that election solidified the temporary elite pro-immigration consensus of winning elections, President Obama’s team didn’t see it as a particularly helpful issue. (And 2016 proved their point.) https://t.co/v7azuDNUXj https://t.co/UW1zCVxMaj — PolitiTweet.org

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publicly support him and seek his endorsement and refuse to criticize him while anonymously hoping he goes away? seems like a foolproof strategy. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Liz_Cheney: Millions of Americans have been sold a fraud that the election was stolen. Republicans have a duty to tell the American peo… — PolitiTweet.org

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"Letting the extremely popular child care tax credit expire would be exactly the type of mistake we can’t afford," says @tyzlaw, former DCCC operative during the 2018 cycle. "The idea of letting it expire, I think, would be horrific," says @RepMcGovern. https://t.co/uYUPR3vdF3 — PolitiTweet.org

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NEW: Democrats stake 2022 hopes on child cash benefits. There's just one problem. The payments dry up months before the election. The party's only hope of extending them is to pass Biden's mega-bill, contributing to the high stakes of negotiations. https://t.co/uYUPR3vdF3 — PolitiTweet.org