With the $3.5 trillion bill why not sunset certain items after say 4 years. It would cut the

[doc03]

cost down to where Manchin and Sinama could live with it and give Democrats something to run on in 2024. You
give Medicare recipients dental, eye and hearing aids it would be hard to take it off them just like ACA has become.
You give people child care and the tax credit for children after 4 years they won't want to lose it. If it lowers drug prices
for seniors who would vote to raise them again.
Isn't that about what the Republicans did with the Bush tax cuts. Obama could have not continued some of it but he would
have been blamed for raising taxes by Republicans.

[Bleacher Creature]

1. This is EXACTLY how I expect this to play out.

It lowers the top line number, but Biden gets an immediate political boost, and then can run for re-election by framing it as a choice between extending those benefits or ending them.

[moose65]

2. Not a bad idea

I've often wondered why they always do these "ten year" things. Is that in their rules or something? The only thing that people hear is "3.5 Trillion Dollars." They never hear the "ten year" part.

Cut it in half to 5 years, then let them crow about the 1.75 Trillion Dollars.

[doc03]

3. You give Trump voting senior citizens free dental, vision and hearing aids they won't

let it expire. The villages in Florida would re-elect a Democrat.

[SheltieLover]

4. But dental is not set to kick in until 2027

Cut rich kids' free college.

[Scrivener7]

5. If the bill only funds programs for 5 years with no mention of afterward, the programs will

likely continue. If we write sunsets into the bill, the programs will likely stop.

[bluewater]

6. Good point.