As reconciliation elements get marked up, we see the consequences of tying spending and revenue together.
budget reconciliation
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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.
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Nature Versus Manchin
Today on TAP: Climate change has already demonstrated the need for infrastructure spending
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Infrastructure Summer: Chuck Schumer, China, and Build Back Better
How does the Senate majority leader’s own $200 billion China bill fit into the equation?
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Private Equity’s Potential Payday From Build Back Better
Hundreds of billions of dollars are scheduled for industries private equity dominates. Advocates want to make sure workers and families benefit, not financiers.
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Infrastructure Summer: The Gottheimer Gang’s Pointless Standoff
Conservative Democrats got a guarantee that the House would vote on the infrastructure bill by late September. But that changes nothing about the process.
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How Much Trouble Is Biden In?
The picture is likely to look better in a few months’ time.
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The Democrats’ Right-Wing Fringe
Gottheimer and Galston, yanking the Democrats back to their Reagan-age timidity
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Clintonism’s Zombie
Making sense of Josh Gottheimer’s attempts to sabotage the Democratic agenda
