individually. that s tough to do in an election year but that may be the only way to do it. separating it, you lose reconciliation. there s a view there s one vehicle to do this. don t come at people who know about parliamentarian procedure here. here s the question, with a 50-50 senate, progressives, their view of management. you ve got two people saying if you don t do it my way, i don t care what the president wants, i don t care what 48 of my colleagues want, it s my way or the highway. that i regard as arrogance. we did take the president s word he would get 50 votes in the senate. we are trusting his word. he does need to deliver on this because it is 85% of his agenda. this is always the balance, how do you keep bernie sanders and joe manchin on the bill
budget committee, he described his frustration on this show yesterday. you got two people saying if you don t do it my way, i don t care what the president wants, what 48 of my colleagues want, it s my way or the highway. that i regard as arrogance. you can disagree. look, i have disagreements, as you well know. you fight for your ideas, but you don t say my way or the highway. and that i feel very strongly about. okay. but here s an interesting take. weirdly enough what manchin now appears to be advocating here you also actually lines one a growing critique i ve been seeing, emerging from some progressive emergers of legislation who are worried with the current version with all these different programs for temporary amounts of time will ultimately amount to not that much in the medium term because it will destroyed by an incoming republican congress. these people have been making the argument why not focus on
dagen: a full-blown civil war breaking out among democrats now that joe biden s build back better is a dud. socialist bernie sanders blasting moderate democrats joe manchin and kyrsten sinema for not doing exactly as progressives want. you ve got to copeople saying if you do it my way i don t care what the president wants, i don t care what 48 of my colleagues want. it s my way or the highway. i regard that as arrogance. you can disagree. i have disagreed, as you well know. you fight for your ideas, but you don t say my way or the highway. democrats bickering over the direction the party needs to take. despite the dysfunction, democrats are still trying to
pick fewer priorities then fund them for a decade, which would effectively make them permanent and we re now in a situation where everyone wants to tear their hair out. listen to senator bernie sanders, one of the architects of that original bill and the chair of the committee described his frustration on this show yesterday. you got two people saying you know what, if you don t do it my way, i don t care what the president wants, i don t care what 48 of my colleagues want, it s my way or the highway and that, i regard as arrogance. you can disagree, i have disagreements as you well know. you fight for your ideas but you don t say my way or the highway and that i feel very strongly about. okay. but here s an interesting take. weirdly enough, what manchin now appears to be advocating here actually lines up with a growing critique i ve been seeing emerging from progressive observers of legislation worried that the current version, with
dagen: a full-blown civil war breaking out among democrats now that joe biden s build back better is a dud. socialist bernie sanders blasting moderate democrats joe manchin and kyrsten sinema for not doing exactly as progressives want. you ve got to copeople saying if you do it my way i don t care what the president wants, i don t care what 48 of my colleagues want. it s my way or the highway. i regard that as arrogance. you can disagree. i have disagreed, as you well know. you fight for your ideas, but you don t say my way or the highway. democrats bickering over the direction the party needs to take. despite the dysfunction, democrats are still trying to