Odd, I find none of this personal opinion resonating in reality. IRA led directly to ~100000 new jobs.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-look-at-the-economic-impact-and-progress-of-bidens-inflation-reduction-act-so-far

The Inflation Reduction Act or IRA signed by President Biden back in 2022 invest close to $370 billion to combat climate change, and to date, there’s been more than $100 billion in private investment and roughly 100,000 new jobs created in clean energy manufacturing.

Unsure how reducing drug prices for those on Medicare is a criticism…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_Back_Better_Plan

Continued negotiations between Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer eventually resulted in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which was signed into law in August 2022, and incorporated some of the Build Back Better Act’s climate change, healthcare, and tax reform proposals while excluding its social safety net proposals.

Calling Manchin any sort of “golden boy” of the Dems tells me everything I need to know about this line of discussion. And that I’m not gonna continue with you because this is venturing more into unfounded personal opinion than fact. I can see you prefer to consider Manchin some sort of instrument Democrats employed to deny people the benefits of the full BBB rather than an outlier of the Democratic party who, along with sinema, voted more in line with Republicans than Democrats. Saying “Democrats showed their true colors” is disgustingly disingenuous.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kyrsten_sinema/412509

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/joe_manchin/412391

Have a good day!

Edit: nice tonal edits to your comment. I definitely won’t be responding to such bad faith discussion.

Edit 2: reading the source I posted answers your question… Highlighted the section you didn’t read.