Or maybe the 1979 Project. Either way, Democrats are blundering into premature austerity.
Infrastructure Summer
Posted inBuilding Back America
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 inBuilding Back America
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.
Posted inBuilding Back America
What’s in the Build Back Better Framework
It has its selling points. But it doesn’t appear to meet the test of permanent, hassle-free, and meaningful.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Democrats Abandon Middle Class on Build Back Better Resolution
It’s part of a disturbing trend that leaves out an important segment of voters from federal benefit programs.
Posted inBuilding Back America
What If Build Back Better Builds Back Worse?
Joe Manchin’s prescriptions for the Biden bill in some cases even fall short of the status quo.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Build Back Better’s Housing Investments at Risk
The housing part of the reconciliation bill is transformative. All factions of the party support it. Will it survive the cut-down?
Posted inBuilding Back America
The Dwindling Choices on Build Back Better
Democrats can cut programs, tighten expiration dates, or count tax cuts and spending separately. But so far they’re just posturing and fighting.
Posted inBuilding Back America
The Undignified Demise of Centrism
Centrist Democrats may force changes to the Build Back Better Act, but their rationale as a political orientation has disintegrated.
Posted inBuilding Back America
The Progressive Caucus Wields Power
In a rare moment in Congress, progressive Democrats held the line, for now.
