trillion infrastructure bill, you know, there s other deals that could be on the table, maybe a smaller build back better, there s a competition bill with china called useca that could be done. there was a big senate vote on t they re trying to do something in the house, that could be done. you know, there is still legislation that they could do, smaller bills, and executive actions that he could do that could show progress, but, again, you know, to be bipartisan you need a partner and the republican party, as we talk about every day, is in this flux. i mean, trump is still the head of the party for all intents and purposes and, you know, his whole thing is he wants to be back in the white house, you know, he is now feuding with florida governor ron desantis about who will be the nominee in 2024. trump is running for president and, you know, we have never had a situation like this before. so it s a strange place biden finds himself, but there are
what you ve already done and most democrats would agree they have not done a great job of that. at least not yet. ali, is the acronym of the week we re about to learn in washington, useca, the competition bill that passed in the senate last week. could that be where we see some action up next? potentially. that will put money into funding innovation and technology, again sort of speaking to the larger economy bucket that is important to voters we ve also, though, seen the new democratic caucus, for example, try to say that there should be a focus on fixing supply chain issues, speaking to the issues hitting americans wallets and probably informing this many in this poll as to why they think things are on the right track and why we re seeing the priorities of the coronavirus and economy so hand in hand. those were the twin crises when i was covering the biden campaign and transition along
the our economy, and research, what it means to our present and our future. all of these are big bills. the trillion and a half for the omnibus bill, probably over half a trillion dollars for burn pits. we don t know. we re awaiting for further cbo scores on that. and then in terms of the competes act, that s a $50 billion for chips and other $40 billion for supply chain and the rest. these are significant bills that contain, especially the omnibus and the competitiveness bills, they re bills that contain large numbers of other bills. large numbers of other bills, but they are the vehicle that will take us forward under the title of competitiveness. what was it called in the senate? useca in the senate, and we call