Or maybe the 1979 Project. Either way, Democrats are blundering into premature austerity.
Housing and Transportation
Read about affordable housing; access to transportation; roadways; bridges and tunnels; crumbling infrastructure; railroads; Amtrak; trucking; interstate highway system; science and technology; land use;
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The Incoherence of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
It reserves money for climate adaptation measures, but lets states use a much larger pot of money to build whatever they want.
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As Buttigieg Eyes a Presidential Run, His DOT Is Floundering
The transportation secretary has a major role to play in easing the supply chain crisis. Pete Buttigieg isn’t doing the job.
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Why Would Anyone Expect Republicans to Implement the Biden Agenda?
Yet that’s what the Build Back Better Act does with practically all of its family care programs.
Posted inHousing
Polite, Legal, and Unacknowledged: The Devastating Biases of Well-Heeled Suburbia
Build Back Better highlights how upper-income whites engage in discrimination every bit as harmful as that ascribed to working-class whites. It also aims to stop it.
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The Democrats’ Last Chance to Make Build Back Better Better
They can use the savings from provisions that will likely fall out of the bill in the Senate to make some remaining programs permanent.
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The Stupid Technicality That Could Down the Biden Agenda
The Congressional Budget Office is restricted from scoring additional tax enforcement as yielding stronger tax collection.
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What’s Next for the Infrastructure Program
The battle shifts to implementation, where success will be won or lost.
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Manchin Could Score Carbon Capture Subsidies to Prop Up Coal
In September, Joe Manchin was told carbon capture would need heavy federal subsidies to keep coal running in West Virginia. Now, a supercharged tax credit is in Build Back Better.
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Manchin’s Cherry-Picking of Budget Estimates
He has deficit concerns with the Build Back Better Act. But the same analysts he cites think his bipartisan infrastructure bill is even worse for the deficit.
