Infrastructure Read
The president’s trip to Scranton, Pa., comes as Democrats close in on a deal to advance two bills carrying a scaled-back version of his domestic policy priorities.
President Biden visited Scranton, Pa., to press the case for his administration’s economic, environmental and social policy agenda, even as he has conceded that crucial elements of his proposal would most likely be dropped or substantially pared back.
Why is that?
And apparently no one from his party is going to explain it to him.
Sustainability measures that the city and county have taken over decades are paying off. But residents still might have to do more.
In the infrastructure negotiations, the leader of the House progressive caucus has shown a willingness to play hardball.
The crises in Benton Harbor and Flint expose broader failures as a congressional push to address the country’s troubled water system stalls.
Sometimes true costs are hidden by backloading them.
President Biden had an ambitious agenda to remake the economy. But under the duress of negotiations and Senate rules, he has shelved a series of proposals, some of them indefinitely.
Lawmakers almost never act until they absolutely must — and even then, they usually punt.
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