# Why are progressives to blame for not getting these bills passed?

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**Created:** [November 3, 2021, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-progressives-to-blame-for-not-getting-these-bills-passed/953757 "2021-11-03T22:23:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2021, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-progressives-to-blame-for-not-getting-these-bills-passed/953757/80 "2021-11-09T22:35:30Z")

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> **[CBO’s Schedule for Releasing a Cost Estimate for H.R. 5376, the Build Back...](https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57601)**
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> CBO will release estimates for individual titles of the bill as we complete them. CBO is aiming to release an estimate for the entire bill as soon as practicable, but the exact timing is uncertain.

Just curious, since talking about these things _after_ they happen doesn’t tend to get me anywhere:

Now that the CBO has said the cost score for the other bill won’t be ready by 11/15, and given that the “moderate” Democrats’ pledge was that they would vote for it _after_ they had the score, but _no later than_ 11/15, which now can’t happen, and given that in any event their statement was very ambiguous about what information they were waiting for and under what circumstances that information would be sufficient…

if this is the first step in a process that results in the kind of administrative purgatory that has killed many a bill before this one, and the progressives ultimately don’t get the Build Back Better bill that they held out for and purportedly secured an agreement on, were they still in the wrong for holding out? Yes, right? It doesn’t matter what happens with the second bill, they should have just gone with the rest of the party? There’s no way they could have expected this kind of bureaucratic trash fire, so it doesn’t carry any significance to their political tactics if it does turn out that way?

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