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Political WireThe true archvillain of the Biden presidency is Josh Gottheimer, a New Jersey Democrat who keeps sticking the knife in Bidens back.
Gottheimer is organizing a small faction of House Democrats to present a counteroffer that would blow up the incipient deal with Manchin. The Gottheimer crew wants to take out the tax hikes on the wealthy that Manchin is proposing. That would mean whats left of the bill could still contain the spending proposals, but it would lack the revenue measures that would make it a deficit-reducer, which is Manchins main rationale for supporting the bill in the first place. If that revenue is gone, Manchins support probably collapses, and the bill dies. Which is probably fine with Gottheimer, who may be evil, but isnt stupid.
Ninga
(8,282 posts)important news there is to follow. Its depressing as well.
PdamnedQ
(168 posts)Autumn
(45,120 posts)Josh Gottheimer represents New Jersey's Fifth Congressional District in the northernmost part of the state, which includes parts of Bergen, Passaic, Sussex, and Warren counties. He was first sworn in on January 3, 2017, and is now in his third term in office.
In Congress, Gottheimer serves on two Committees, including the House Financial Services Committee, where he is the Vice Chair of the National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy Subcommittee and a member of the Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets Subcommittee. Josh also serves on the House Homeland Security Committee, where he is a member of the Intelligence and Counterterrorism Subcommittee and the Transportation and Maritime Security Subcommittee.
KPN
(15,680 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,370 posts)(Ps your violent sigline has me very triggered)
Autumn
(45,120 posts)KPN
(15,680 posts)majorities are not majorities for a party that lives in a big tent. And this one's the smallest.
SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)lapucelle
(18,417 posts)Gottheimer is probably negotiating for some restoration of the SALT exemption.
Phoenix61
(17,028 posts)committees when they refuse to work with the party and support Bidens legislation.
lapucelle
(18,417 posts)duckworth969
(651 posts)for more Dems in Senate.
So, pricks like this guy are less powerful.
lapucelle
(18,417 posts)lapucelle
(18,417 posts)For Political Wire the evil archvillain Democrat storyline never gets old.
brooklynite
(95,060 posts)And is positive or negative on both sides.
lapucelle
(18,417 posts)Hyperbole like evil and archvillain and the unsupported assertion that a Democrat who has voted with the President 100% of the time keeps sticking the knife in Bidens back put this gossipy item firmly in the unserious column.
Caliman73
(11,760 posts)Both can be beholden to special interests and monied people who are pressuring them to block something that will cause said monied interests to not be able afford that 5th private jet, but will allow some poor people to eat comfortably for awhile.
Manchin has done enough to prove who's side he is on. Gottheimer has likely been flying under the national radar because he is simply one of 435 House members. He can share the scorn.
Mad_Machine76
(24,464 posts)Has been troublesome on BBB previously.
Caliman73
(11,760 posts)There has been a small group of Democratic House members that have been siding with more conservative policy during the past couple of years that President Biden has been in office.
Mad_Machine76
(24,464 posts)BittyJenkins
(413 posts)They have lots of puppets in the USA. 🦨
Caliman73
(11,760 posts)there is more than enough self interest and greed to influence people on a strictly local level. I would look at local corruption before assigning international conspiracy.
Case in point, Senator Manchin, whose own family money has come from involvement in the coal industry. Some reports indicate that Manchin had received up to 4 million dollars a year in revenues from his coal investments. His family is involved in the industry.
That gives him plenty of incentive to protect the industry and kill any alternative and sustainable energy projects without any Russian involvement.
BittyJenkins
(413 posts)with everything you said, that is why I wrote too.
Greed is destroying our country.
Calista241
(5,586 posts)how far the new reconciliation bill will go.
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yaesu
(8,020 posts)Hekate
(91,055 posts)Just A Box Of Rain
(5,104 posts)and is getting called out on this forum for being an evil villain?
There is something really wrong here.
Hekate
(91,055 posts)Some people just arent happy unless they are trollin the Democratic Establishment. They are the kind whod observe Joe Biden walking across the Potomac and would complain that he cant swim.
BumRushDaShow
(130,122 posts)It's the cloture Rule in the Senate.
The previous Women's Health Protection Act - H.R.3755 - Women's Health Protection Act of 2021 passed the House on 9/24/21 218 - 211 and Gottheimer voted for it. Then it went to the Senate for a vote on 2/28/22, which failed 46 - 48 (6 NV), where Manchin refused to even vote to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to allow the bill to move forward for debate, despite the fact that Sinema did vote to procced.
Ford_Prefect
(7,943 posts)before he joined Congress. The story goes he's still very cozy with certain influential corporate board members. He's far more devious and damaging than Manchin.
Probatim
(2,552 posts)The larger issue that the conservative party is lockstep is denying Democrats a win - even if it meant their mothers would end up dead.
McCarthy and McConnell have a solid lock on their colleagues and virtually nothing will pass without their sign off.
LymphocyteLover
(5,666 posts)iemanja
(53,137 posts)We have votes in the House.
Celerity
(43,795 posts)https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/07/14/manchin-climate-tax-bbb/
from your article:
oopsie!!!