@AOC ("Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez") wrote:
The media focus on hazy topline numbers is a gift favoring the tiny # of holdouts.
It lets them get away w/ saying “oh I want X trillion, not Y” instead of actual positions- “cut childcare” or “I want to block making Rx drugs affordable”
People should know what they want to gut
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@NiallStanage ("Niall Stanage") wrote:
Progressives, incl. @AOC, have argued for a while that the focus on the top-line number for the bill distracts from the much more important question of what it would actually do.
Here's @BernieSanders on Manchin's objections.
