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We’ve been talking about Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better Act,” the huge budget reconciliation bill that he’s trying to push past Congress.

So, I wanted to do a little bit of breakdown of some of the problematic aspects of the bill.

First, let’s start with how huge it is. It’s 2,465 pages and 444,311 words long. That’s not a bill; that’s a treatise. Can we really anticipate that people are going to be able to competently read it and absorb all that’s in it? That’s one of the reasons that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) called for a strategic “pause” to even be able to understand what’s in it — rather than going along with the plan to try to pistol-whip it through.

> We’ve been talking about Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better Act,” the huge budget reconciliation bill that he’s trying to push past Congress. > So, I wanted to do a little bit of breakdown of some of the problematic aspects of the bill. > First, let’s start with how huge it is. *It’s 2,465 pages and 444,311 words long.* That’s not a bill; that’s a treatise. Can we really anticipate that people are going to be able to competently read it and absorb all that’s in it? That’s one of the reasons that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) called for a strategic “pause” to even be able to understand what’s in it — rather than going along with the plan to try to pistol-whip it through.

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its 400 bills in one. the one being a mandatory needed to pass for government to keep working. all the other shitty bills are added to it because they wouldn't pass on there own

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its 400 bills in one. the one being a mandatory needed to pass for government to keep working. all the other shitty bills are added to it because they wouldn't pass on there own

Sadly, that happens with every bill before Congress.

EDIT: This bill (congress.gov) was the latest in a series of attempts to fix that issue that failed spectacularly. Then again, trying to fix problems created by Congress using congressional procedures is doomed to fail.