Infrastructure Read
President Biden’s ability to win legislative consensus is being tested by his social spending and infrastructure bills.
President Biden went to the Capitol to detail a compromise on social safety net and climate legislation, but he couldn’t break the liberal blockade on another priority, infrastructure.
The Transportation Department and the state are teaming up on the program, which aims to prevent a repeat of the supply-chain crisis by bolstering ports and other sources of bottlenecks.
Their opposition meant that House leaders were unlikely to be able to muster enough votes to pass the bill on Thursday as they had hoped, despite President Biden’s entreaties.
Democrats struggled to bridge crucial differences over what to include in and how to pay for their social policy and climate plan.
One reader feels “betrayed,” while others say the president is “overreaching” or critique “a piñata full of lofty promises.” Also: Fusion energy; baseball.
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.
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