putting vice president harris in charge of voting rights, is that shunting it off or elevating it. it s not clear what role she can play in negotiating with congress. we haven t seen much except for talking. they have made it very clear that their number one priority right now is passing some sort of infrastructure bill. they don t have the time. they haven t dedicated the time as they have to infrastructure to passing something on voting rights. right now that doesn t look very promising that they ll get anything done here. before i have to let you go, what does that future look like for infrastructure? are we still fairly confident or is anyone confident that a bipartisan deal can be reached? or will the democrats find some other way to go it alone? i m hearing more and more frustration with progressives for how long the biden administration is willing to try and get something bipartisan. there was a lot of excitement after the relief bill package so quickly that biden was willin
they don t have the time. they haven t dedicated the time as they have to infrastructure to passing something on voting rights. right now that doesn t look very promising that they ll get anything done here. before i have to let you go, what does that future look like for infrastructure? are we still fairly confident or is anyone confident that a bipartisan deal can be reached? or will the democrats find some other way to go it alone? i m hearing more and more frustration with progressives for how long the biden administration is willing to try and get something bipartisan. there was a lot of excitement after the relief bill package so quickly that biden was willing to go it alone. and now this seemingly endless negotiation with republicans is sort of like the biden that many progressives thought was going to come into office, the old model of biden, the one who wants very badly to be able to say he got something done with republicans.
During a conference call with reporters on Tuesday, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) said that his "goal was not to reach a deal" when he and nine other Republicans met with President Joe Biden on Monday to discuss COVID-19 relief.
tend to load them up. they ll toned use something like this hurricane relief bill or i m sorry, super storm relief bill to basically, you know, load it up with unrelated items. and we did see that with the sandy bill. we saw $2 million for the smith seasonian, massive amounts of money for community block grant programs, community development block grant programs. and that may become a problem if congress can t resist the idea of adding unrelated items to this bill. also the debt limit, could be a huge problem if they try and marry the debt limit to a relief bill package. is that the danger really more for democrats as a potentially remember super storm sandy and what republicans like crews had to famously done ask rejected that assistance in. well, so far the people who were so critical of ted cruz and other people who voted against the sandy package, they ve certainly made a lot of noise saying we remember what you did,