President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan has been called an infrastructure bill and it does fund roads, bridges, the electrical grid, and water pipes. But in a few weeks, the second half of this plan will be released: the American Families Plan. Together, the ideas inside these plans aim to redefine what infrastructure is, by bolstering “human infrastructure” along with everything else. On Tuesday’s episode of What Next, I spoke with Slate senior economics and business correspondent Jordan Weissmann about how Biden is expanding the concept of infrastructure, what human infrastructure entails, and how this plan embraces a new kind of American populism, one that could appeal to Democrats and Republicans. Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.
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POLITICS The decision by the Senate Democratic leadership and President Joe Biden for no discernible reason to tweak the emerging coronavirus relief bill in a way that would deny survival checks to around 12 million adults and five million children is drawing sustained blowback, with progressive House Democrats warning that the needless change could come with severe economic and political consequences.
(Photo above: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) talks with reporters at the end of the third day of former President Donald Trump s second impeachment trial at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. (Photo: Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
The decision by the Senate Democratic leadership and President Joe Bidenâfor no discernible reasonâto tweak the emerging coronavirus relief bill in a way that would deny survival checks to around 12 million adults and five million children is drawing sustained blowback, with progressive House Democrats warning that the needless change could come with severe economic and political consequences. This is madness. People are struggling and we re fighting over how many people we want to EXCLUDE from the relief checks, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.), vice chair at large of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), wrote in a fiery Twitter thread on Thursday. What about the family with several kids who made $160k but lost their job in 2020? Or the person who made 80k pre-pandemic but lives in a high-cost-of-living state like NJ or NY? We re going to cut them out?
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