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    Why Spending $2 Trillion On Child Care, Health Care And Fighting Climate Change Won’t Make Inflation Any Worse Than It Already Is      
  A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss the seeming “punt” of the reconciliation bill and how Democrats can still generate forward momentum.
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    Was BBB Doomed As Soon As BIF Passed?          TPM Reader PT checks in on Manchin, BBB, and the current swoon:
Read MoreFor pretty much the entire time of the Biden Administration legislative activity, I’ve been of the opinion that the whole issue of the BBB was best understood as a kind of culture war. The problem that the Manchin caucus really has with the BBB is that it represents a Democratic Party in which the moderate / conservative / Manchin caucus is not firmly in the driver seat all the time, for all things.
A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss Congress finally being on the verge of getting a filibuster carveout… but not for what you think.
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    Listen To This: The House Gets It Done      
  Breaking News Pod Alert: Josh and Kate discuss the House finally passing the reconciliation bill and what comes next in the Senate on a new mini-pod out today.
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    Listen To This: Inflation Consternation      
  A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss inflation, some low-balled jobs numbers and the vote to censure Republican congressman Paul Gosar.
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