And a comment on news coverage of the passage.
The Inflation Reduction Act has passed the US Senate 51-50 yesterday afternoon as per WaPo: Senate approves Inflation Reduction Act, clinching long-delayed health and climate bill.
With a tiebreaking vote from Vice President Harris, the 50-50 Senate sent the bill to the House, which aims to approve it and send it to the White House for Biden’s signature later this week.
This was after 20ish hours of debate and votes on amendments.
A good run-down of the bill can be found in the NYT: What’s in the Climate, Tax and Health Care Package and also via CNN: What’s in the Manchin-Schumer deal on climate, health care and taxes.
I think it is fair to say that this is another piece of major legislation passed in the context of significant barriers, which erodes the “Dems in Dissarray” narrative. So this may change the narrative about the Biden administration to some degree, althought I still I don’t expect it to have significant effects on the mid-term outcomes.
