Infrastructure, Human and Otherwise: The Spending Is Easy, The Funding Is Hard
irwinstelzer.substack.com
The senate is now dotting the “i”s and crossing the “t” in the word trillions, as in the $4 trillion President Biden plans to spend on infrastructure and on bringing the nation’s welfare state more in line with those of Europe and the wishes of senator Bernie Sanders. This past weekend enough Republicans voted to move the smaller bill, the one dealing with roads, bridges and other more traditional infrastructure, forward to assure a filibuster would not prevail. Procedural hurdles remain, making the timing of final approval uncertain (it might have happened by the time you read this), but one thing is clear: 18 Republican senators are less frightened by Trump’s threat to retaliate against the “weak, foolish and dumb” senators, deploying his $100 million fund in “lots of primaries,” than by their constituents who want their pot-holes filled and the nation’s business attended to. That makes this merely procedural vote more consequential than it otherwise would be.
Infrastructure, Human and Otherwise: The Spending Is Easy, The Funding Is Hard
Infrastructure, Human and Otherwise: The…
Infrastructure, Human and Otherwise: The Spending Is Easy, The Funding Is Hard
The senate is now dotting the “i”s and crossing the “t” in the word trillions, as in the $4 trillion President Biden plans to spend on infrastructure and on bringing the nation’s welfare state more in line with those of Europe and the wishes of senator Bernie Sanders. This past weekend enough Republicans voted to move the smaller bill, the one dealing with roads, bridges and other more traditional infrastructure, forward to assure a filibuster would not prevail. Procedural hurdles remain, making the timing of final approval uncertain (it might have happened by the time you read this), but one thing is clear: 18 Republican senators are less frightened by Trump’s threat to retaliate against the “weak, foolish and dumb” senators, deploying his $100 million fund in “lots of primaries,” than by their constituents who want their pot-holes filled and the nation’s business attended to. That makes this merely procedural vote more consequential than it otherwise would be.