Democrats wary of emerging bipartisan infrastructure deal [View all]
Source: the hill
By Alexander Bolton - 06/11/21 06:00 AM EDT
Progressive Democrats are wary of an emerging deal on infrastructure being negotiated by five Republican and five Democratic senators, fearing it could make it tougher to get prized priorities to President Biden’s desk.
The progressives are specifically worried that passing a bipartisan infrastructure package consisting of the most popular infrastructure spending priorities — such as funding for roads, bridges, rail, public transport, airports and rural broadband internet — will make it tougher to marshal support for a bigger reconciliation package down the road.
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Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) fired a shot ..............................
“The problem is this country faces enormous issues that have been ignored and neglected for a very long period of time,” he said. “Even if you look at infrastructure from the narrow perspective of roads and bridges, it’s inadequate. That’s not me talking, that’s the American Society of Civil Engineers.”
Sanders said the climate provisions in the bipartisan deal are “totally inadequate.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) .........................
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/557916-democrats-wary-of-emerging-bipartisan-infrastructure-deal
I say go for it all before it gets widdled down and down and down...........................
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