Biden will push through infrastructure plan if no Republican support

[speak easy]

Source: Yahoo Finance

Biden will push through infrastructure plan if no Republican support -energy secretary says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden would be willing to push through his $2 trillion infrastructure plan without the support of Republican lawmakers if he cannot reach a bipartisan deal, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said on Sunday.

Granholm said Biden would prefer that his plan have Republican backing but, if that does not work, he would likely support using a procedural strategy called reconciliation to allow Democrats to pass it in the Senate.

"As he has said, he was sent to the presidency to do a job for America. And if the vast majority of Americans, Democrats and Republicans, across the country support spending on our country and not allowing us to lose the race globally, then he's going to do that," Granholm said on CNN's "State of the Union."

Most Americans currently support the Democratic president's plan, said Granholm, one of several senior Biden administration officials who promoted the proposal on television news shows on Sunday.

Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biden-economic-adviser-says-job-133351704.html

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Will be passed by a second budget reconciliation. Money would be available from October.

[msongs]

1. manchin says not without repub votes nt

[CincyDem]

2. See how Joe M feels when it comes to a vote. n/t

[marble falls]

10. Especialy in job poor, infrastructure deprived WVA? Manchin will come around.

[CincyDem]

13. He needs to go back and learn some political savvy from ole Bill Byrd.

That guy never let a bill move through the Senate without hanging some WV pork on it....and any bill he hung pork on...he supported. None of this shit like today when a R senator hangs some pork on the bill and then f'ing votes against it !!! But the bill still passes and his state gets the jobs.

It's like I68...no reason for it other than to drive to Morgantown WV from DC. Doesn't matter when ya drive it, it's you and 3 other cars...but at 7mil per mile...Byrd was on it like a dog on a bone. lol

[MichMan]

28. Who is Bill Byrd ?

[hay rick]

31. Robert Byrd.

Former WV Senator.

[CincyDem]

32. Duh...thank you for the correction.

I kinda thought it didn’t sound right but just kept plowing ahead. Lol. Thanks.

[hay rick]

34. Bill, Bob, whatever. I got the B right.

I'm at the age when names don't come to me automatically, but a lot of times I will remember the first letter of the name. Go figure.

[CincyDem]

35. 1000% correct....and hell, it coulda been "billy bob" for all I remember sometimes !!! :-) n/t

[speak easy]

3. Nope.

Manchin Declares Support For Biden Infrastructure Plan In Blow To GOP
https://bipartisanreport.com/2021/03/25/manchin-declares-support-for-biden-infrastructure-plan-in-blow-to-gop/

[onetexan]

27. Oh good. At least manchin wont be obstructionist to this very important

Piece of legislation.

[Qutzupalotl]

12. That was HR1, the voting rights bill.

[paleotn]

18. Sure about that?

Lots of funding in the bill for WV. Joe is being well taken care of so when it comes to a vote he'll fall in line. If there's anyone in DC who understands realpolitik, it's Joe Biden. That's how we get things done.

[Tribetime]

22. I hope he realizes soon that the Republicans

Will not support anything from the Democrats.

[Deminpenn]

33. McConnell has stated no Rs will vote for the Dem bill

regardless.

[hedda_foil]

4. Has the Senate Parliamentarian weighed in yet on whether Schumer can change reconciliation rules?

I heard that the current rules limit reconciliation bills to one per year but Schumer wants to change the Senate rules to allow a second one for the Infrastructure Bill.

[vsrazdem]

5. I believe they get to do 2 this year, because they did not use the one last year.

[speak easy]

7. The mechanics of the second reconciliation is set out here.

https://www.gtlaw.com/-/media/files/insights/alerts/2021/2/gt-alert_the-second-reconciliation-bill-president-bidens-build-back-better-plan.pdf

[hedda_foil]

9. Thank you!

[mucifer]

6. What about the Voting Rights Bill? Won't we need reconciliation for that, too??

[speak easy]

8. Voting rights can be passed by a one-off exercise of the nuclear option.

[paleotn]

19. Exactly.

Additional payoff for Joe Machin reaping big $'s for WV in the infrastructure bill.

The way DC use to work, before people got all ideological and the GQP went batshit insane. I do miss the old days.

[reACTIONary]

24. Reconciliation is for budgetary bills only. nt

[Mike Nelson]

11. Good...

... just get it done.

[PoliticAverse]

14. There's someone that thinks it will have Republican support? n/t

[speak easy]

15. The are making it clear they will use reconciliation.

[Joinfortmill]

16. Biden Administration is rocking it.

[PSPS]

17. "the vast majority of Americans, Democrats and Republicans"

"As he has said, he was sent to the presidency to do a job for America. And if the vast majority of Americans, Democrats and Republicans, across the country support spending on our country and not allowing us to lose the race globally, then he's going to do that," Granholm said on CNN's "State of the Union."

That's precisely the proper message. All of these proposals, and even gun control and SB1, have enormous support by both democratic and republican voters. It's the republicans in congress that are out of step not just with the country at large but even with their own republican constituents whom they purportedly represent.

Egads, now they're even winding up the culture war wurlitzer for, of all things, baseball and coca cola! What kind of strategy is this? "Vote for me! I crushed coca cola! I crushed baseball!! I crushed ther well-paying job you would have had!!111!! I even crushed your right to vote!!!1111!!!"

[OrlandoDem2]

20. And then Republicans will claim credit just like with the stimulus!

I hope we preempt that by calling out everyone who votes NO the nanosecond after the bill is passed and keep hammering that home 24/7 through 2022.

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

21. Good...push it.

At least it's not a blackout blind drunken supreme court justice nominee with really old calendars... fuck'em...we may only have the majority for 2 years ...the good work has to happen fast... Moscow Mitch is dying, look at him... he's already trying to rig his replacement process. The time is now.

[TomDaisy]

23. MAKE IT SO

[multigraincracker]

25. Tя☭mp is going to have cow, man.

[Blue Owl]

26. Suck it, 'pukers

[Warpy]

29. There will be no GOP support, I think he already knows that

so he's very wisely firing up the steamroller.

Somebody needs to point out to the billionaires that their private jets aren't going anywhere unless fuel gets to them via tanker truck crossing the bridges that are desperately in need of repair or replacement.

[speak easy]

30. He knows.

He has probably also seen the polls saying more people will support it IF it is funded by taxes on the wealthy.

[Bayard]

36. Rethuglicans will vote against anything that makes Biden look good

As the White House said over the weekend, rethugs, "can't articulate" any good reason for voting against this bill.