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Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said Sunday that the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill has "never been about the price tag" but that a $1.5 trillion topline price suggested by moderates in the party is "not going to happen." Jayapal, chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said on CNN’s "State of the Union" that "a small group of people" in her party, meaning moderates like Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, have derailed President Biden’s agenda by treating the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill as separate from the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. Progressives like Jayapal want both bills to move in tandem and have vowed to vote against the smaller bill if they don’t. Manchin and others have vowed to vote against the reconciliation bill if the price tag isn’t lowered. Jayapal called the Democratic Party infighting "unfortunate." "What we’ve said from the beginning is it’s never be...

Appearing on CNN’s  "State of the Union,"  Manchin was asked by anchor Dana Bash to respond to  Senate  Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who said  Democrats  were moving "full speed ahead" on the package for which Manchin previously called for a "pause." Manchin, who sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said his main issue with the package is its hefty price tag. "He will not have my vote on 3.5 and Chuck knows that," he said, adding that it should be more like $1.5 trillion. "It’s not going to be three and a half I can assure you." Manchin said the bill that Democrats should be primarily focused on is the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed in the Senate and is awaiting House action. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said a vote on that bill would be held on Sept. 27, but progressives have threatened to vote against it if the reconciliation bill is held up in the Senate. Manchin said there is ...

  Ron Klain was on CNN on Sunday and was asked the obvious question. What’s the plan for getting Americans out of Afghanistan? You know, the ones you left there? Because you screwed up so insanely badly?? THOSE AMERICANS? His answer amounted to a shrug. He conjectured randomly about hypothetical ways that OTHER countries might let some Americans piggyback out of town but gave NO details and no plans whatsoever.’ This is how the WHOLE OPERATION was conducted. "We believe it’s around a hundred," he said. "We’re in touch with all of them, who we’ve identified, on a regular basis. Obviously, we’re hopeful that in the coming days that the Qataris will resume air service out of Kabul. And if they do, we’re obviously going to look to see if Americans can be on those flights.  "We are going to find ways to get them, the ones that want to leave, to get them out of Afghanistan," he added. "We know many of them have family members, many of them want to stay, but t...