I thought it was a House/Senate Reep fight over this in terms of who was negotiating and who’d picked up their toys and gone home.

And, in terms of a spine, the Dems don’t have a supermajority, so they can’t even get a cloture vote in the Senate, never mind get a big enough margin to kill stuff generally. It’s a piece of the congressional reality I wish was actually reported — while the Dems control many things, including holding committee chairmanships, for all intents and purposes their majority is too slim to work in terms of reform or controlling an agenda.