Manchin on Sunday cited an analysis from the Congressional Budget Office that renewing all the proposals of the bill would cost more than $4.5 trillion over 10 years and said his Democratic colleagues "continue to camouflage the real cost of the intent behind this bill." One of Manchin's chief criticisms of the bill is that it masked its likely real impact on the deficit by sunsetting popular programs after only one or a few years in anticipation that Congress would bow to political pressure and extend them in the future. "We are going to vote on a revised version of the House-passed Build Back Better Act - and we will keep voting on it until we get something done," he pledged. We must and we will keep fighting to deliver for working families," he wrote. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) informed colleagues in a letter Monday morning that he will keep scheduling votes on Build Back Better until some version of the bill passes the Senate. "We believe that adopting such an approach could open a potential path forward with this legislation," she said. White House chief of staff Ron Klain on Sunday retweeted a statement by New Democrat Coalition Chair Suzan DelBene (Wash.) calling for negotiators to prioritize fewer reforms and enact them for more years. Manchin's warning Sunday that the Build Back Better bill would fuel inflation and risk American energy independence means that Democrats may have to narrow their focus to only a few priorities, such as the expanded child tax credit, and dramatically pare back spending and incentives for green energy.
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