With me now, the host of strange days podcast, jonathan james green and the vice president of programming for the march great casey foundation. it is great to see you all. congresswoman, i m going to start with you because i have this pelosi dear colleague letter in my hands. tomorrow they will begin debate on the bipartisan infrastructure debate. what i want you to do for me is pull back the curtain because you have been in these rooms where these negotiations happen. you know what this looks like. and when we hear that speaker pelosi will stand before the kau sis and make a final plea, everyone thinks she will make a speech and everyone will be like, oh, i see the light. that s not actually how this works. there is back room negotiating where people are trying to figure out what can go into this. your sense reading the tea
Done because he wants to tout the fact that his bipartisan involvement is what he campaigned on, really trying to bring that to washington, but what happens to the other piece of it? he s going to be meeting separately with the progressives, the moderates, with leadership and trying to of course come together at the end of this and have at least a plan or a strategy. but as we ve seen, many of these lawmakers are dug in, they say this has been my position from the beginning, why should i change now? so the question is what kind of influence or pressure the president can apply that gets either side to budge or concede or make a concession. we ve seen the white house overall do that sometimes on the size and scope of some of their legislation but this is now coming down to within the own democratic family, how does the president come at the head of the table and hash this out internally. jake, i want to get your insights on this infrastructure debate and the trains running on
reporter: the plan is that they will try to push a bill through the house, but as you said, it is not going to be easy. look, this just adds to a growing number of agenda items from the biden administration that they want to see congress pass. namely democrats pass. this of course adds to voting rights, preserving of the right to abortion, gun safety, police reform, and we haven t even mentioned the infrastructure debate, priority for the biden administration for this congress. right now they are on recess, but they come back later this month and that is what they will try to pass is this debate on two separate bills on infrastructure bipartisan bill and of course the sweeping $3.5 trillion package that we talk about again and again. but returning back to this bill that the house speaker nancy pelosi will put on the floor to try to preserve the right to abortion, it doesn t have the votes to pass through the senate and it is renewing this debate
For the opportunity. i think what biden had was both a, decade and lack of progress of infrastructure and dedication to find bipartisan solution, often during the obama administration when you needed to make a final deal it was joe biden that went up to the hill to negotiate with mitch mcconnell or the republican leadership in the house to see if they could find common ground, and he did that it is a course of this infrastructure debate it s an important victory for the president, it s an important statement about his tenacity at trying to find common ground which he promised in the election. but there s also what comes next? because a lot of what the president calls for during the campaign, proposed in american jobs plan is still left on the table, still left to what the
He did that through the course of the infrastructure debate. it s an important victory for the president. it s an important statement about his tenacity at trying to find common ground, which he promised in the election. there s also what comes next. because a lot of what the president called for during the campaign, proposed in the american jobs plan is still left on the table, still left to what the senate has just turned its attention to, which is the budget process and ultimately a reconciliation bill that will make the important investments in climate change. you are right to say it s important victory for the president. it is. i wonder if i m being cynical. does it also set a dangerous precedent for the white house and democrats that they keep going for bipartisan bills in the senate even though we know you can t protect voting rights