This notion of bills that get roundly defeated on the floor being snuck into something else unrelated and otherwise innocuous has been happening for a long time, and I hate it. The sort of people who try and stealth-tamper with legislation are exactly the sort of people who also stealth-tamper with vote tallies.

Manchin and Sinema were unlooked for allies and its very welcoming to have them standing firm as cracks in the monster edifice of the uniparty spread and the thing starts to crumble.