The sausage making ain't gonna be pretty the next few months

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Albert Hunt, opinion contributor

If you care about policy making, the next few months are likely to be messy - you may be less put off watching the workings of an actual sausage factory.

The Democrats' celebrations of a bipartisan Senate approval of a $1 trillion infrastructure bill and plans to take up the more significant $3.5 trillion social infrastructure initiative are premature. Bigger challenges lie ahead this fall.

There are multiple tensions on Capitol Hill between the House and the Senate, between Democrats and Republicans - the Senate approval of the infrastructure bill shouldn't be seen as a harbinger - and between the Democrats' left wing and mainstream members.

How these tensions play out will affect whether any infrastructure bill is finalized, the fate of Biden's larger domestic policy initiative, raising the debt ceiling to avoid a government shutdown, and the fate of a voting rights bill to curtail voter suppression.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-sausage-making-ain-t-gonna-be-pretty-the-next-few-months/ar-AANlz81

[yankee87]

1. Policy Making

The big story will be about Afghanistan and the Delta variant for the foreseeable future. Everything else will be back burner, IMHO.

[empedocles]

2. Biden has been able to overcome those 'walls of worry', despite all sorts of threats - so far.