Biden's 3 trillion infrastructure plan

[Cuddles]

We’ll see. As John McCain used to say, it’s always darkest before it goes completely black.

indeed...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1440057190593691655

https://twitter.com/x/status/1440075174150225930

 

[Cuddles]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1440001486600167426

 

[UsualName]

Here it comes in earnest.

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With the debt ceiling comes a continuing resolution and the chance for the so-called human infrastructure package Dems have been pushing all to bundled up in a larger reconciliation package. This is the kick off, make no mistake. If the debt ceiling gets raised and the package with it you might as well spend your time kicking rocks because this will be over.

The starting block is $3.5 trillion over ten years and that could be halved by reducing it to 5 years.

I have no doubt democrats will have to scale down. It’s just too politically dubious to move something that big now. But this is also a fight they want to have in public.

At issue:

Child tax credits
Pre school and childcare
Medicare expansion of benefits
No cost community college
Federal paid leave for birth of child/family illness
Among others.

In two weeks we will be fully in the thick of it.

Right on schedule, fully in the thick of it.

bif
Continuing resolution
Debt ceiling
Build back better

The higher the stakes, the bigger the reward… or the bigger the fall.

 

[UsualName]

Infrastructure week is hard!

Eleven dem Senators have asked Pelosi to delay a vote on bif today; Yarmuth is saying no time to write a stand alone debt ceiling bill or alter the reconciliation package. Rank and file democrats are bringing out the old “mint a coin” nonsense.

For some inside baseball, democrat leadership chose to put all of this into one kettle cooker of a week because pressure forces action. It’s always risky to this, as we have seen in the past with government shutdowns and the affordable are act but it creates an environment for action.

 

[UsualName]

In today’s development Joe Manchin made AOC cry:

Must be getting close to a deal.

 

[UsualName]

 

[UsualName]

If anyone is curious about the diameter of the trillion dollar coin Yellen might have to mint:

 

[Cuddles]

 

[smallfil]

There is already a bipartisan bill on just infrastructure, you know bridges, railroads, ports, airports. The things the US needs to be fixed. Let just hope Joe Machin and Kyrsten Sinema both put their foot down and refuse to advance the 3.5 trillion bill until the real 1.0 trillion bipartisan bill is signed into law. They have leverage and that gargantuan Democrat giveaway to illegals, migrants mostly, including amnesty for illegals need to be broken up in tiny pieces. Without Manchin or Sinema, that huge Democrat progressive wish list is dead on arrival.

 

[CaptainObvious]

There is already a bipartisan bill on just infrastructure, you know bridges, railroads, ports, airports. The things the US needs to be fixed. Let just hope Joe Machin and Kyrsten Sinema both put their foot down and refuse to advance the 3.5 trillion bill until the real 1.0 trillion bipartisan bill is signed into law. They have leverage and that gargantuan Democrat giveaway to illegals, migrants mostly, including amnesty for illegals need to be broken up in tiny pieces. Without Manchin or Sinema, that huge Democrat progressive wish list is dead on arrival.

Wouldn't it be remarkable if an infrastructure bill actually addressed infrastructure and nothing but infrastructure. Easy enough to do if they actually wanted to do it.