Biden’s unpleasant welcome-home gift
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— As President Joe Biden returns from his tense summit with Vladimir Putin to try to cobble together a bipartisan infrastructure agreement, progressive Democrats will greet him with a frustrated message: No Climate, No Deal.
These Democrats in Congress see climate change as an emergency for humanity, and while they cheered the clean energy investments in Biden’s $2.5 trillion American Jobs Plan, they’re pressuring him not to sacrifice those climate priorities to secure Republican support for a more modest bricks-and-mortar bill.
“There is little appetite in our caucus for an infrastructure plan that ignores the greatest crisis, the most existential crisis that we face,” Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) said last week.