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The White House has worked to keep its liberal base happy. How much longer can it last?
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, the GOP s lead negotiator on a counteroffer to President Joe Biden s infrastructure plan, listens as she joined by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo. | AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
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Progressive activists have mostly kept their cool as President Joe Biden’s infrastructure negotiations with Republican senators stretch on longer than planned.
But with talks ongoing and new concessions being offered, leaders of liberal organizations say they’re losing patience, fearful that the White House is wasting time in pursuit of Republican votes that are unlikely to materialize.
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Last June, when most Americans could agree that their country was in crisis but few could agree on what to do about it, staffers from a small organization called Justice Democrats part of a burgeoning faction of young activists whose goal is to push the Democratic Party, and thus the entire political spectrum, to the left joined a gathering on the patio of a restaurant in Yonkers, overlooking the Hudson. It was a breezy Tuesday night, and polls in the congressional primary had just closed. Most of the staffers hadn’t seen one another in person since