Infrastructure Read
The former president’s efforts to bring down the bipartisan deal fell mostly on deaf ears among Republicans, signaling his waning influence on Capitol Hill. Can it last?
Doing what's popular and right shouldn’t be so hard.
The Senate minority leader is gearing up for months of obstruction. But Democrats can fight back.
Many Republicans are disregarding the deficit impact for the sprawling infrastructure bill, but intend to change course for looming battles on social spending and the debt ceiling.
Amtrak and freight rail companies have long clashed over the use of railroad tracks, a dispute that is now playing out along the Gulf Coast, where the agency is seeking to restore service.
Despite the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate that nearly half of the legislation would not be paid for, senators were racing to move ahead with it.
There's a reason progressives keep losing Democratic primaries.
If we need creative accounting to invest for the future, go for it.
The C.B.O. found that half of the proposed $550 billion in new spending on roads, bridges and broadband would be financed by adding to the nation’s debt.
Progressives have not ruled out reopening the deal that senators are painstakingly putting together, and they do not intend to take it up for months, until after their other priorities are addressed.
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