No infrastructure bill should pass without a $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill.

[Uncle Joe]

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[SoonerPride]

1. Perfect shouldn't be the enemy of the good

1/4 of a pie is better than no pie at all.

Fight me.

[Uncle Joe]

2. That's just it the infrastructure bill itself; isn't all that good,

it's more like the perfect being the enemy of the mediocre.

[Walleye]

3. Doing nothing is the enemy of good

[Uncle Joe]

4. We are doing something TWO TRACKS. n/t

[Walleye]

5. I think we'll get there, I am sincerely hoping for the whole deal.

[brush]

10. I think so too. The final number will probably be less than 3.5T though.

Manchin and Sinama have both said they can't support 3.5T but have not said no to a lesser number. It might be 3.0T or 2.75T as a need for pragmatism becomes necessary.

3.0T or 2.75T is still a huge amount of money and will allow us to say in the mid-terms and in '24 that we delivered on our campaign promises. Then we get at it, win another term for Biden/Harris and get the cuts done now restored.

[Walleye]

11. Nobody likes it, but compromise is essential to governing in a democracy

[brush]

12. Yes. A good amount of something is better than nothing every time.

[applegrove]

6. Climate, hearing and eyes, drug prices, and free pre-K and 2 years of

Community College are all popular with the public. I hope they get publicized this week and the public gets educated. Will help us in 2022 midterms, whether or not BBB happens. Put Katie Porter on a national tour with Bernie Sanders going to 50 States. That will cook GOP's goose.

[questionseverything]

9. Actually for some reason about 2/3s of the child tax credits approved a couple months ago

Haven’t gone out this month and people in my hood are upset

Having “ good intentions “ and not delivering just makes people mad especially when we control both Congress and the White House

[applegrove]

14. They forgave Obama's rough Obamacare start.

[questionseverything]

15. That's not the same at all

These child tax credits are written into law, that they haven’t been delivered this month is devastating to low income families

It has been ignored here at du but it is a huge problem

[applegrove]

16. First I've heard of it and I go everywhere looking for things to post in DU. N/T

[questionseverything]

17. What I am trying to say is,

When democrats have the power to help us and refuse to, people figure why bother?

If democrats stand strong and manage to get a good
Bbb passed we will be in power for a long time but roads and bridges ain’t enough…

[texasfiddler]

7. Climate Change is going to make COVID look like a walk in the park.

The 1.2 trillion bill does little to combat the causes of Climate Change.

[qazplm135]

8. we all know it's not going to be 3.5

Bernie knows that too, but there's zero reason why it can't be 2 or 2.5.

If moderates came back with that, the left would grudgingly accept.

[rdking647]

13. pelosi made an agreement with progressivess and is now going back on it

progressives arent going to agree to that.

[malaise]

18. Katie Porter is nailing it on Chris Hayes

right now