Mighty Joe Gets it Done: Biden Announces Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal

FINALLY! This country is turning into a third world shithole due to republicans.

They are holding this country back. Imagine what America could be if republicans would slink off back to their caves.

Th country started turning into a third world shithole the day Ronald Reagan was elected president. The transformation is almost complete, and this deal won’t do anything to stop it.

Biden wants to sign both infrastructure bills, this one and the one Democrats could potentially pass via reconciliation, at the the same time.

[quote]"If they don’t come, I’m not signing it. Real simple. So, what I expect – I expect that in the coming months this summer, before the fiscal year is over, that we will have voted on this bill, the infrastructure bill, as well as voted on the budget resolution," Biden added. "But if only one comes to me – if this is the only thing that comes to me, I’m not signing it. It’s in tandem."

[quote]The President also said he supports House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plan to hold the bipartisan infrastructure deal in the House until the Senate also passes reconciliation.

Good for Joe! Also, WTF is Twirls wearing in that group snap at R3? Does she (he?) have a boner? The hell us that outfit? The hell is going on in it's crotch region?

Kooky Kyrsten wears whatever her "Trailer Park Holly Golightly" Mood strikes her that morning.

Pete must be relieved. Now he can run with it.

Or be driven to it.

"Serious compromises" on both ends. LOL

We're so fucked.

What exactly did the Republicans want that the democrats were brave enough to take out? Tell us because we could use the laughs.

Oh please R8. This is just the beginning - Biden got his bi-partisan bill so he can do what R3 describes.

Joe is a master of legislative procedure. He knows what he’s doing.

[quote]Joe is a master of legislative procedure. He knows what he’s doing.

LOL. The same guy who didn't even bother to persuade Manchin on raising the minimum wage, and has dropped the ball on student loan forgiveness.

He can't even get the optics on this right. Ten white people standing outside right now on the front lawn gushing about what's good for this country.

How many different ways can we spell tone deaf?

he's sucking the wind out of Dump, McCarthy and McTurtle is what he's doing

[QUOTE] LOL. The same guy who didn't even bother to persuade Manchin on raising the minimum wage, and has dropped the ball on student loan forgiveness.

But $579B is a fraction of the near $2T they were hoping to pass.

R14 I think that additional money is where the second bill comes in.

Nancy said she ain't passing infrastructure if reconciliation isn't passed first, and she emphasized AIN'T.

Oy! Now they sign it.

Cinema carries her cellphone in her panties--what's wrong with that?

R15 There's no way in hell Republican are going to vote for the second bill. And if Democrats pass it by reconciliation beforehand, they just won't vote for the first bill.

There has to be a thread around here about how Sinema seems to have lost a leg or a foot or something.

Still no excuse for her wearing clashing reds like that.

I just noticed yesterday Sinema has a severe limp. I had no idea she's missing a limb!

Actually I think it's some kind of kickstand crutch device for a broken foot. I really thought she'd lost a limb, though.

There's a lot of unspent stimulus money they're going to redirect to infrastructure.

They're also going after the approx. one trillion of taxes U.S. Americans somehow weasel-out of every year.

Okay, so it's not a cellphone. I still don't like her.

Please.

Turtle gonna send that cunt wife of his to bust some heads and the rethugs will vote against it as usual.

Wow, what a win for President Joe Biden.

I have to admit I don’t really understand what’s going on. Biden and Pelosi have both said this deal is DOA if the senate doesn’t pass all of the rest of Biden’s infrastructure bill via reconciliation. So what exactly is the point of breaking it into two bills? Just to claim you worked across the aisle on one of them?

As I understand it, if the Senate tried to pass or weakens a bill because of partisan issues and the threat of filibuster, a similar bill passed in the house then forces the issue to reconciliation, rather than to the graveyard. Essentially it's an end run against having a bill fail in the Senate because of the filibuster. It's only something that can be used in bills having to do with taxes, spending, or debt limits. So it couldn't be used, for example, on the voting rights bill.

Thanks, R28. People like R11 are just too dumb to be here.

Joe Manchin is on board, as well as Sinema.

Pelosi, Schumer and many other democrats want to use this infrastructure bill to not only deal with physical things (roads, bridges, etc....), but "social" infrastructure things as well. This includes immigration and things that have nothing to do with roads and bridges.

That is where threats of using reconciliation come in; Pelosi and Schumer have already begun feeling out if immigration can be done as part of reconciliation process, and if parliamentarian give it a thumbs up, that is what they want to do among other things.

Democrats cannot do another reconciliation after this next one in fall (assuming they go that route) until sometime in 2022. By that time everyone will be gearing up for mid-term elections and as per neither party is going to give the other side a club to beat them over head with.

Democrats also remember what happened to Obama at his first mid-term elections and are keen no to go down that road again. They want their base energized and ready to go in 2022 by showing just how much Biden's administration has done for American people.