I dont see what incentive Sinema or Manchin have to support standalone progressive bills, it doesn't align with their personal politics or help them in their respective states.
That's very common, popularity peaks at inaugration and starts going down, troughs are made during mid term election and then it crawls up near re-election.
Throwing "progressive" on bills bugs me. "for the people's act", sure, progressive; "John Lewis act" was basically taking us back to better times b4 SCOTUS rid us of some protections. Reverting tax rate to Obama levels isn't "progressive", just going back to where we were. Reinstating financial oversight is just that. A lot of what gets called progressive is just dems trying to claw back things that we had & lost at some point.
Obama barely touched upside down approval /disapproval at this point,Biden has been there for months.Obama was never 16 points upside down
But those are things most Dems support and they do get support like it did last week. By progressive I mean bills like complete student loan forgiveness or 'defund the police' kind of nonsense.
I don't agree with blanket student loan forgiveness, there are far more desperate people who need help and loan forgiveness will only inflate student loan scam.