Democrats need to raise the debt ceiling by October 1st. If they don’t, the government will shutdown. Federal employees won’t get paid and Democrats will get blamed. They have a trifecta.
Democrats need to ban gerrymandering. Any law passed won’t be retroactive which means we need to pass it BEFORE states draw up new district maps. They have the data and drawing them as I type this. It took Democrats 10 years to get a trifecta. And 16 years before that. Who knows when we’ll get a trifecta again, if ever. Well the White House has already given up and there isn’t any sign
Democrats have to pass the 3.5 trillion dollar budget. Every day that passes increased the chance the moderates get antsy and the purple wig wearing Sinema loses interest. And the public won’t vote for Democrats unless we given them something. The activists won’t mobilize unless we give them something for all their hard work in 2018 and 2020. I think the public needs a full year of child credits, lower Medicare age, free pre-k, paid leave, etc. The longer we wait, the less time for the FY 2023 package. If reconciliation goes into January, I doubt there would be a appetite with moderates to do a public option in the FY 2023 budget
The next month will also decide if masks will be a common thing this winter, not a temporary measure. The biggest Biden gad going was his leadership on the pandemic and the idea it was coming to an end
Of course Afghanistan is a wildcard. While I don’t the American public will care that much, the taliban taking things back to 1996 would be bad
