How Democrats Defeated Mitch McConnell

Eric Medlin
3 min readAug 3, 2022

They finally outsmarted their opponents.

Senators Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer. Source: Politico

The Biden administration has been revived. Last Wednesday, Joe Manchin announced that he and Senator Chuck Schumer had reached a deal on the Build Back Better plan, now known as the Inflation Reduction Act. This new agreement gave Democrats over $300 billion in green energy spending as well as health care reforms and spending for oil drilling in the United…

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Eric Medlin

I’m a writer interested in the intersections of history, ideas, and politics. I publish every week. www.twitter.com/medlinwrites