Biden’s provocative pressure on Manchin and Sinema

For months, it has been clear that President Biden, once a staid defender of the at-times-arduous and long legislative process, has grown impatient with it. As a Democratic president with a pair of effective Democratic majorities in Congress, he sees this moment as the time to get big things done. But that same staid process he has often — including very recently — defended now poses his biggest hurdle, particularly given how slim Democrats’ majorities are.