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.
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.
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.