But she claims it must pass to avoid an expiration of highway funding. That’s just not true.
Building Back America
Biden’s American Jobs Plan, American Families Plan, and a variety of tax measures, analyzing each component with insights on prospective policies and if these elements go far enough
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How the Democrats Can Pass the Entire Reconciliation Bill
It just requires enacting it for four years.
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The Real Trouble With the Sprawling Reconciliation Bill
Focusing the agenda could have a benefit: a clearer message.
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Infrastructure Summer: The Democrats’ David Boren Wing
There’s always someone in the House or Senate willing to tank a new Democratic president’s agenda.
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Biden’s Build Back Better Plan Is First and Foremost a Jobs Plan
All that public investment rebuilds infrastructure, greens the economy, and supports caregiving—but mainly it creates at least four million good jobs.
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Infrastructure Summer: A Surprisingly Radical Housing Bill
Practically all the solutions to diminishing the high cost of housing, from nudges to public options, are present in the housing piece of the reconciliation bill.
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Infrastructure Summer: The Sophie’s Choice of the Reconciliation Bill
Democrats may have to decide whether to do a few things well or a bunch of things not so well.
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Infrastructure Summer: The Curse of Artificial Scarcity
As reconciliation elements get marked up, we see the consequences of tying spending and revenue together.
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Infrastructure Summer: The Fight Against the Next Pandemic Starts Now
Tech billionaires are pushing for funding to prep for future pandemics. Why not the left?
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Infrastructure Summer: Joe Manchin’s Symphony of Disingenuousness
He mumbles about inflation to try and stop a bill that’s primarily concerned with reducing inflation.