What you're not hearing about the progressive win in the war for the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill

Friday's blockade by House progressives of a promised vote for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act is being billed as a win, and a blow to moderates. But it betrays the trust of the moderate Democratic senators who were instrumental in having already passed the bill, in reliance on promises that it wouldn't be paired with the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. In the House, moderate Democrats would have liked to have BIA to run on in 2022 in their competitive swing districts, but what's most salient for them is that they must not vote for reconciliation, which is deeply and intensely unpopular. Reconciliation also faces opposition in the House from other Democrats who insist on restoring SALT deductibility, which is absent from the bill because it is opposed by progressives. It seems the progressives believe they are squeezing the moderates, but they are likely to end up with nothing.