Update: Senate shelves the BBB Act

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[Kal-El814]

The GOP is only good for raising the ambient temperature of whatever room they happen to be in, and I’m not sure all of them could do even that.

[Remarkableriots]

Pete Buttigieg delivers infrastructure message from a bridge with a cracked steel beam

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Truck driver Clifton Hughey heard talk all his life about a potential third highway bridge to cross the Mississippi River near Memphis.

 

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lmao who could have seen this coming

 

[Jason]

12 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

lmao who could have seen this coming

 

[SaysWho?]

1 hour ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

lmao who could have seen this coming

 

Full article:

Biden Ends Infrastructure Talks With Senate GOP Group, Saying Its Plan Fell Short

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A statement from White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the counterproposal on one of the president's chief domestic priorities did not "meet the essential needs...

 

"He offered his gratitude to her for her efforts and good faith conversations, but expressed his disappointment that, while he was willing to reduce his plan by more than $1 trillion, the Republican group had increased their proposed new investments by only $150 billion."

Why keep going lower with these cats? reconciliation and dare Manchin to vote against it

[Jason]

3 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

Why keep going lower with these cats? reconciliation and dare Manchin to vote against it

 

Maybe because it's not just Manchin, and he's pulling a McConnell and letting every other Democrat who doesn't want to vote for it hide behind him while he takes the flak since he thinks taking the flak plays well back home anyhow. But force his hand and you force the rest of their hands when they can't just hide behind him any more.

[SaysWho?]

43 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Maybe because it's not just Manchin, and he's pulling a McConnell and letting every other Democrat who doesn't want to vote for it hide behind him while he takes the flak since he thinks taking the flak plays well back home anyhow. But force his hand and you force the rest of their hands when they can't just hide behind him any more.

 

This is just paraphrasing what a tweet here said. 

[Jason]

30 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

 

This is just paraphrasing what a tweet here said. 

 

[PaladinSolo]

This guy really is a republican right?

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

6 minutes ago, PaladinSolo said:

This guy really is a republican right?

It's how they justified the tax cuts

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

dumb dumbs 

 

[SuperSpreader]

1 hour ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

dumb dumbs 

 

Go back to the GOP

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

if that's the two page summary it sucks and is a bad idea. Gas tax increase is particularly bad politics, far outweighing the "good" of bipartisanship

 

 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

trash

 

 

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[mclumber1]

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Pelosi: Make sure you understand this... there ain’t gonna be no bipartisan bill unless we are going to have the reconciliation bill.

 

Double negative.  So there IS going to be a bipartisan bill. 

[Jwheel86]

Disability community, screwed again. 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

2 hours ago, mclumber1 said:

 

Double negative.  So there IS going to be a bipartisan bill. 

 

 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

bipartisan bill^

 

Big deal if true

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

selling off infra is bad

 

 

[SaysWho?]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/06/24/us/joe-biden-news.amp.html
 

Deal made.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/06/24/us/joe-biden-news.amp.html

 

[SaysWho?]

And as stated above, he’ll sign it as long as reconciliation bill comes with it.

[Jason]

So this is $1 trillion less than his initial proposal? 

[Jason]

Just now, SaysWho? said:

And as stated above, he’ll sign it as long as reconciliation bill comes with it.

 

For the other $1 trillion? 

[SaysWho?]

Just now, Jason said:

So this is $1 trillion less than his initial proposal? 

The compromise is. Democrats look to pass the rest via reconciliation.

[Joe]

Is the child tax credit getting renewed?

[SaysWho?]

Just now, Jason said:

 

For the other $1 trillion? 

 

But it would leave large swaths of the president’s economic proposals — including much of his proposed spending to combat climate change, along with investments in child care, education and other social programs — for a potential future bill that Democrats would try to pass without any Republican votes using a procedural mechanism known as reconciliation.

 

On Capitol Hill, Democrats signaled openness to accepting the initial details of the agreement, provided that their moderate colleagues accept a second, much larger reconciliation package.

 

“There ain’t no infrastructure bill without the reconciliation bill,” Ms. Pelosi told reporters on Thursday, repeating a comment she had made privately on a call with House Democratic leaders, according to two officials familiar with it.

[Fizzzzle]

2 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

selling off infra is bad

 

 

Australia still sells off infrastructure. They started privatizing certain highways with (I suppose) the idea being that the money from those acquisitions funding new highways, which makes total sense and isn't stupid at all.

 

Privatizing any public utilities is bad. They exist to serve people, not to make money from an inherently captive market.

[SaysWho?]

Some more info in the separate bill:

 

Biden backs $1.2tn infrastructure bill but places big condition

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But the US president says he will only sign it if a separate, far bigger budget bill can be passed.

 

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What would be in the separate bill?

The president wants to enact another, roughly $6tn spending package that would roll in his party's priorities on climate change, education, paid leave and childcare benefits. It is being drafted by Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist.

 

That measure is expected to include tax increases on the wealthy and corporations. It would be passed by a budget reconciliation process that would not require any Republican votes in the Senate.

 

The most powerful Democrat in the US House of Representatives, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, made clear they would not pass one bill without the other.

 

"There ain't going to be a bipartisan bill without a reconciliation bill," Mrs Pelosi said.

 

Mr Biden echoed that sentiment in later remarks from the East Room of the White House: "If this is the only thing that comes to me, I'm not signing it. It's in tandem."

 

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Now, after extended negotiations, it appears that the White House has found a way to work with a handful of Senate Republicans to pass an infrastructure spending package.

 

It's not the "epiphany" candidate Biden promised would occur among conservatives during his presidency, but for a White House that has laboured for a deal, it's a start.

 

There are still many ways this agreement could go sideways, however. Mr Biden's strategy of passing this bipartisan legislation alongside a more ambitious Democrat-only package of spending on social programmes will be a tricky dance.

 

If the former fails, centrist Democrats may vote against the liberal agenda. If Democrats can't stick together on the latter, then progressive senators - growing wary of this administration - could scuttle the former.

 

Mr Biden, a veteran of the US Senate, likes to boast that he knows how the chamber operates. The next few months will more than test his skills.

 

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[SaysWho?]

Sam Stein was probably very excited to type that as he misses Trump.

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

46 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

Sam Stein was probably very excited to type that as he misses Trump.

Some journalists just can't get over the man

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