nothing. the choice is between the full package and, you know, something that needs to be negotiated. so it s just not that simple, chris. and the truth is, if we wanted to talk about the details of that senate bill, yeah, we have neglected infrastructure for several decades and there are some good things, the broadband investment in particular in that senate bill. but we may be missing our last best chance to do something on the climate crisis, and that senate bill is not only lacking, it would take us backwards. it s fossil fuel business as usual, so we got to have the other half of the deal to make this package climate positive. you need the spending bill to balance out the deficiencies in the infrastructure bill. now, that is a novel argument, congressman huffman. what i have heard from the progressives slash, left, liberal, whatever, i don t know what we call them these days, that, oh, no, we finally have
it s fossil fuel business as usual, so we got to have the other half of the deal to make this package climate positive. you need the spending bill to balance out the deficiencies in the infrastructure bill. now, that is a novel argument, congressman huffman. what i have heard from the progressives slash, left, liberal, whatever, i don t know what we call them these days, that, oh, no, we finally have the numbers, they re all popular, we want all of it. not that it had to be done to make anything correct, but it s about advantage. yeah. on the social investments, that s correct. but on the climate piece, we always needed to go through the butting reconciliation. you can t do it with senate republicans. i wish you could, but if you want it to be bipartisan, there are no senate republicans that will take bold action with you. how worried are you that if thursday comes and you guys flex and don t let pelosi get it done that it sends a message of weakness and inability to