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4. No they did not. Multiple centrist and conservative Dems blocked vast and profoundly important swathes of Biden's agenda
Wed Jul 8, 2026, 10:54 PM
Jul 8

For example all you need to look at is the 84 per cent gutting of Biden's 2 huge infrastructure bills.

Biden's new spend frameworks for the 2 infrastructure bills (physical and human) totaled up to $6.1 trillion, yet at the end of the day, due to many of the No Labels Problem Solvers and Blue Dogs in the House and then their allies Manchin and Sinema in the Senate smashing both bills up, we ended up only passing a total combined new spend of only $987 billion in toto (and that was for a 10 year spending period for large parts of the bills), an 84 percent gutting (as mentioned above).

So many vital programmes either entirely ripped out or dramatically slashed. Programmes and spending that would have so so helped us win in 2024.

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