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[quote=Anonymous]If I'm Biden, I'm aiming for a deal that looks like this:
-  Accept the GOP's discretionary spending caps while loudly saying you disagree with them.  The caps go out ten years, but the ones past this year aren't binding anyway since future Congresses can just change them or ignore them.  And the one for this year will be a political gift to Biden.  It's mathematically impossible to do those cuts without hitting lots of programs that republicans don't want to cut and that are popular, so they won't be able to agree on approps bills internally and Biden will have lots of fodder to attack them this fall when we get into the shutdown wars.  
-  Agree to rescind unused COVID aid.  The admin doesn't care about this anyway.
-  Agree to a pilot program for work requirements, but make it continuation contingent on a study that shows that actually increase employment.
-  Some of Biden's proposed tax increases/changes are included.
-  IRA not touched
-  The extension goes into 2025 so we aren't doing this again next spring during election season.[/quote]

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