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White House to Democrats: Get ready to go it alone on infrastructure
Posted on 6/15/21 at 11:28 am
Posted on 6/15/21 at 11:28 am
White House officials told House Democrats Tuesday to get ready to go it alone on infrastructure, setting the stage for party leaders to tap an obscure budget procedure to move President Biden's top domestic priority without Republican support.
Huddling in person in the Capitol for the first time since the COVID crisis hit, members of the Democratic Caucus were briefed by Steve Ricchetti, a top adviser to Biden, and Shalanda Young, the deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), who said they would give Senate negotiators seven to 10 days to reach a bipartisan agreement, according to Democrats in the meeting.
Given the protracted impasse, Yarmuth predicted that Democrats will have to act alone to move Biden's two-part infrastructure plan, one part dealing with traditional transportation projects, the other with programs designed to help families financially. Yarmuth is readying his budget to do just that.
"We're assuming right now that everything will be done by reconciliation —everything meaning the jobs plan and the families plan," Yarmuth said. "That doesn't preclude a bipartisan agreement. If one happens, we just take that part out of the instructions. But right now we're assuming everything will be [done by reconciliation]."
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Huddling in person in the Capitol for the first time since the COVID crisis hit, members of the Democratic Caucus were briefed by Steve Ricchetti, a top adviser to Biden, and Shalanda Young, the deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), who said they would give Senate negotiators seven to 10 days to reach a bipartisan agreement, according to Democrats in the meeting.
Given the protracted impasse, Yarmuth predicted that Democrats will have to act alone to move Biden's two-part infrastructure plan, one part dealing with traditional transportation projects, the other with programs designed to help families financially. Yarmuth is readying his budget to do just that.
"We're assuming right now that everything will be done by reconciliation —everything meaning the jobs plan and the families plan," Yarmuth said. "That doesn't preclude a bipartisan agreement. If one happens, we just take that part out of the instructions. But right now we're assuming everything will be [done by reconciliation]."
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Posted on 6/15/21 at 11:29 am to Jbird
How the frick can you add new spending in reconciliation?
The process is supposed to be “budget-neutral.”
The process is supposed to be “budget-neutral.”
Posted on 6/15/21 at 11:30 am to Jbird
Our only hope is 2022, and hoping voter integrity is recognized as the issue that it is.
Posted on 6/15/21 at 11:30 am to teke184
Stolen elections have consequences
Posted on 6/15/21 at 11:31 am to Jbird
Most of the GOPe love Biden. What a loser.
Posted on 6/15/21 at 11:34 am to Jbird
They must have done polling and found infrastructure as a word had the highest buzz on policy agendas and decided to put every egg they have in that basket.
ETA: as in sneak in every other issue underneath it and just call it infrastructure.
ETA: as in sneak in every other issue underneath it and just call it infrastructure.
This post was edited on 6/15/21 at 11:35 am
Posted on 6/15/21 at 11:51 am to Jbird
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(OMB)
Damn. They're still obsessed.
Posted on 6/15/21 at 11:53 am to Jbird
democrats: forcing their agenda when they are in power
republicans: wHaT If tHe ShOe wAs oN ThE oThEr fOoT DeMoNrAtS aRe tHE ReAL fAsCiSts
republicans: wHaT If tHe ShOe wAs oN ThE oThEr fOoT DeMoNrAtS aRe tHE ReAL fAsCiSts
This post was edited on 6/15/21 at 11:55 am
Posted on 6/15/21 at 11:55 am to teke184
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How the frick can you add new spending in reconciliation?
The process is supposed to be “budget-neutral.”
cue "new taxes on 'rich'
Posted on 6/15/21 at 11:56 am to Jbird
It is borderline criminal that Congress cannot come to an agreement on a clean, standalone, infrastructure bill.
Posted on 6/15/21 at 12:41 pm to Indefatigable
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It is borderline criminal that Congress cannot come to an agreement on a clean, standalone, infrastructure bill.
It’s also ridiculous that this wasn’t Trump’s first legislative push and victory instead of establishment style tax cuts. Now the Democrats get to own this issue and warp it into a welfare and climate change bill
Posted on 6/15/21 at 12:51 pm to DallasTiger11
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It’s also ridiculous that this wasn’t Trump’s first legislative push and victory instead of establishment style tax cuts. Now the Democrats get to own this issue and warp it into a welfare and climate change bill
At the time, Congress had recently reauthorized a new infrastructure bill in 2015 that didn't expire until 2020. So in 2017 (when TCJA passed) infrastructure spending was not a priority. Now, we are operating on a one year extension of the 2015 reauthorization.
Posted on 6/15/21 at 12:57 pm to Jbird
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infrastructure plan
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one part dealing with traditional transportation projects, the other with programs designed to help families financially.
Ok, so at least one of those two things actually has something to do with infrastructure.
Gee willickers, I wonder why they think that would gain massive bipartisan support?
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