Definitive debunking today by Biden himself of the false claims by some here that the $3.5 trillion

[Celerity]

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namely the the Progressive caucus is providing the muscle for President Biden in bringing to heel a miniscule obstructionist rump of 'moderates' seeking to balk the Party's agenda.

naming names of the principal obstructionists

Senate (obvioulsy)

Manchin
Sinema

House

The original 9 who sent the letter to Pelosi that helped to create that artificial deadline on the bi-partisan bill (and thus got the media's jacobs in a twist and shrieking 'Dems in disarray!)

Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey
Carolyn Bourdeaux of Georgia
Filemon Vela of Texas
Jared Golden of Maine
Henry Cuellar of Texas
Vicente Gonzalez of Texas
Ed Case of Hawaii
Jim Costa of California
Kurt Schrader of Oregon

then a few weeks later, at the end of August

Stephanie Murphy of Florida

joined them

and finally

Scott Peters of California

who was the only House Budget Committee Democrat to vote against $3.5T budget reconciliation bill in the Sept 25th mark-up


All are either Problem Solvers (Gottheimer is the co-chair along with Rethug Brian Fitzpatrick) or Blue Dog caucus members or both.

Stephanie Murphy is one of the most moderately conservative Dems in the House Caucus (one of only 6 current Dems who had both substantial amounts of votes and who voted with Trump over 50% of the time in the 115th House, along with Henry Cuellar, Conor Lamb, (both of whom were close to 70% in terms of voting with Trump), Tom O'Halleran, and Josh Gottheimer, plus the 'now in the Senate' Sinema ).

Murphy is the chair of the Blue Dogs as well.

She is one of only 10 'trifecta' members, meaning she belongs to all 3 moderate/centrist/conservative Dem Caucuses:

Blue Dog Coalition
New Democrat Coalition
Problem Solvers Caucus

along with Carolyn Bourdeaux, Tom O'Halleran, Lou Correa, Jim Costa, Brad Schneider, Josh Gottheimer, Kurt Schrader, Vicente Gonzalez, and Abigail Spanberger.