Have hit a snag after republicans refused to accept democrats best plan for funding the bill because it would have meant collecting more taxes from rich people. republicans tanking a bipartisan proposal because they don t want to make rich people pay more taxes. who could have seen that one coming? as lawmakers try to scramble to save that bipartisan bill, democrats appear to be making much better progress on their larger package which does not require any republican support. this week, senator joe manchin indicated that when it comes to the democrats only much larger infrastructure package, he s ready to be a team player. i want it to proceed manchin told a reporter for the hill, adding that he wants to be part of the negotiations on a reconciliation bill. like with everything in the infrastructure debate, nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to. and if you think you know what the end result of all of this is going to be, then i ve got a bridge to sell you and maybe a
Home that s been destroyed by flooding. for her all the pieces of this infrastructure debate are kind of useless, right? the debate on capitol hill is kind of physical infrastructure versus social infrastructure. i hear the argument for the need for both. how do we reconcile that, though? do we go for one bill and in do we go for both of them politically? i m in agreement of both. we we need to put all proposals in there. child care. there are too many people in
This pandemic is i think a reassessment of work, of what works for you, and then an opportunity for workers to look for options that better fit them in the long term. at the outset of this infrastructure debate, one of the things we heard over and over again is that president biden and vice president harris were going to have to get out on the road and they were going to have to sell this infrastructure plan. now that the dynamics of this have shifted a bit and they re really looking at this as two pieces, how do they continue to sell this piece of child care, care in general being infrastructure? if i were them, i would go to the mothers that have been impacted by this pandemic and tell their stories. they should start putting women on television, doing paid advertising, making sure these women are telling their stories shall and going into those
Compromise we don t want? and make that our position when what we really want is something that is very far from this? and i think that s going to increasingly become an issue even if they wanted to do a messaging strategy on a lot of these bills, i think you re going to see progressives objecting to that because that s actually not the message that they want to send to the american public about where the democratic party is. the real risk is it bleeds into the infrastructure debate which is throw one big ticket item with optimism where it can get through both chambers. the house democrats, four or five, they can t even pass a democracy bill, why am i going to over here in my view, a watered down infrastructure bill and do them a favor in the senate? you re starting to see the progressives increasingly target president biden. they were doing it this week. they were saying you need to be talking every single day about s-1, the elections bill or about these other priorities. i thin
Want to get nerdy about the infrastructure debate. three weeks ago they emerged from the oval office, agreed on $3 trillion. the democrats said with a republican senate there s no way we can get $2 trillion unless you, mr. president, take the lead on how we ll pay for it. he said he would do that. mick mulv a. ney revolted. mitch mcconnell revolted. conservative groups revolted and got the president to back off. in this letter he says why don t you come to me with how you would pay for it? this letter essentially said infrastructure is dead. the meeting wasn t going to take place anyway. then it became this. now it s no longer about infrastructure, except how they can spin that political message potentially. it s a power struggle. you re watching a classic power struggle. it s not that they re trying to win any of the policy turf in the middle. they re trying to win the political argument right now. nancy pels owesy says she ll pray for the president and the country. she s trying to