Senate Votes To Advance President Joe Biden’s $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Over Weekend Session
The Senate moved closer to passing a $1 trillion infrastructure package Saturday after lawmakers from both parties came together and voted to clear a key procedural hurdle, but the action soon stalled out as opponents tried to slow the rush to approve one of President Joe Biden’s top priorities.
The measure would provide a massive injection of federal money for a range of public works programs, from roads and bridges to broadband internet access, drinking water and more. In a rare stroke of bipartisanship, Republicans joined the Democrats to overcome the 60-vote threshold needed to advance the measure toward final votes. The vote was 67-27, a robust tally. If approved, the bill would go to the House.
Senators are meeting for a second consecutive weekend to work on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which is the first of Biden’s two infrastructure packages. Once voting wraps up, senators immediately will turn to the next item on Biden’s agenda, the budget outline for a $3.5 trillion package of child care, elder care and other programs that is a much more partisan undertaking and expected to draw only Democratic support.
Schumer has vowed to keep senators in session until they finish up the bipartisan bill and start the initial votes on the next big package.
Vice President Kamala Harris arrived on Capitol Hill for meetings on the bipartisan legislation, which Biden said offered a potentially “historic investment,” on par with the building of the transcontinental railroad or interstate highway system.
Congress is under pressure to make gains on the president’s infrastructure priorities — first with the bipartisan bill and then with Democrats’ more sweeping $3.5 trillion budget blueprint they plan to shoulder on their own.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Any source that references the White House as one word doesn’t pass the credibility test, you numpty.Originally Posted by REGURGITATER
Meh
I read the article ... it's a click bait headline.
The article talks about Biden taking a different policy stance now that he's in government to that which he espoused in his election campaign.
The person quoted, Nicholas Eftimiades, is solid though and not to be dismissed as a lightweight on the subject.
More great work.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-mi...orse-than-ever
Here Are The Big Policies In Democrats’ and President Joe Biden’s $3.5 Trillion Budget Reconciliation Plans
A highlight and a warning for TD’s resident Tax Cheat (slick) from the article
Climate
Democrats are planning on going big on investments to fight climate change in their reconciliation package, including billions for clean electricity, electric vehicles, energy efficient buildings, weatherizing homes, a Civilian Climate Corps and more. Progressives and environmental groups, who say even more needs to be done to address the alarming effects of climate change across the world, will be watching the details of the bill closely. A number of progressives in the House have vowed not to support the bipartisan infrastructure bill that is expected to be approved by the Senate this week if the reconciliation package falls short.
“The Budget Resolution will allow the Senate to make the most significant investment in tackling the climate crisis in US history, and put America on a path to meet President Biden’s climate change goals of 80% clean electricity and 50% economy-wide carbon emissions reductions by 2030,” Senate Democrats pledged in their memo summarizing the coming legislation.
Taxes
Unlike the three major coronavirus relief bills Congress has passed, Democrats plan to offset the cost of the budget reconciliation package by raising taxes. They say they’ll target corporations and the wealthy without burdening families earning less than $400,000, which was a key campaign pledge from Biden.
A chunk of revenue will come simply through increased IRS enforcement of current laws, since the government misses out on as much as $1 trillion annually due to taxpayer noncompliance. Presumably, much of the rest of the tax increases will come through reversals of the tax cuts Republicans enacted in 2017. But Democrats have said they’ll undo that law’s limit on federal deductions for state and local taxes, a provision that targeted wealthy households in blue states like New York and California.
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IsnÂ’t this great.
Biden Rolls Out Red Carpet for COVID-Infected Illegal Immigrants
Senate set to pass President Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure bill Tuesday
The Senate is poised to pass a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill on Tuesday, capping off a lengthy, days-long debate.
Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), wrapping up the chamber's work for the day, said it had "come to an agreement" and that the Senate will vote on passing the bill at 11 a.m. on Tuesday.
"It has taken quite a long time, and there have been detours and everything else, but this will do a whole lot of good for America, and the Senate can be proud it has passed this," Schumer said about the bipartisan bill.
Technically, the clock on the bipartisan bill runs out early Tuesday morning, but cutting the deal on timing allows senators to bypass having to come back for a middle-of-the-night vote.
The bill is on a glide path to passage, as roughly 20 GOP senators have supported advancing the bill so far.
^it's going to be an awful 4 years for you
Senate passes President Joe Biden’s 1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package
Yada, yada, yada……..
President Joe Biden’s budget package includes plan for pathway to citizenship, green cards for millions
The inclusion of immigration in the budget reconciliation package comes shortly after President Biden last month forcefully backed the idea.
"I think we should include in the reconciliation bill the immigration proposal," Biden told reporters following a meeting with Congressional Hispanic Caucus legislators and others who have worked on immigration reform.
Isn't it strange that all the previous POTUS candidates had had as their main program how to solve the immigration? Actually how to curb it down, some of them really did it when elected.
But now, when everywhere in world the immigration is the biggest problem for the governments - especially in Europe - the US welcomes them - however, not the same sort of immigrants as flowing into Europe. And no problem with the COVID 19?
Can somebody enlighten me, or did I miss the explanation (in MSM) why it is so?
Democrats know that illegal immigration and illegal immigrants bolster their base. It’s why they have sanctuary cities and do their very best to grant citizenship and eventual voting rights to millions of people who should never be eligible, and apply obvious half measures at the border with no real intention to stop the flow of illegal aliens.
Their intention is to turn Florida and Texas blue, and people who vote for the democrat party know this and support it but don’t have the balls to admit they hate their fellow countrymen so much that they’ll import voters from 3rd world countries if they can disenfranchise their fellow Americans and win elections.
This is the fetid truth about American politics and illegal immigration. It’s about one party trying to import voters and the other trying to stop it.
But if the racist fucks embraced immigration, something on which the nation is built, maybe they could find some replacements for the senile old white fuckers they are killing off with their antivax nonsense.
Bear in mind there was a Bipartisan immigration bill that would have gone through, and that would have satisfied even you, under the Obama administration, and that other orange turd Boehner refused to bring it to the floor for a vote.
So Republicans are the ones who stopped immigration reform.
Republicans are racist.
That is the fetid truth.
Does it mean that half of the population is bad and half is good? There were the times when it changed from plus to minus and vice versa, never stopped changing.
And it seems the politicians do any possible effort to make it worse - always to their own advantage, to make their adversaries down...
That's not a good outlook for the nation...
That's not true.
Republicans are for legal immigration — and against illegal immigration.
Legal immigration rose to almost two million per year under Dubya senior, dropped under Clinton, and has been around one million per year since, under Dubya, Obama, and Trump.
Reagan was the one who got legislation passed that legalized 3/4 of the illegals at the time.
The idea was that the border would be enforced (stop illegals coming across) while legalizing those in the country.
Since then, the border hasn't been enforced — Trump started, and Biden stopped those efforts — so, there won't be another Regan-like bill supported by Republicans until a strong border stops further illegals from crossing, obviously.
Meanwhile, left-wingers like AOC are actually against stopping the illegals from crossing — and illegal immigrants are happy Biden is president while they crash the border in record numbers.
Number of migrants at US border hits new record high - BBC News
Number of migrants at US border hits new record high
The number of undocumented migrants reaching the US-Mexico border has hit the highest level in more than 20 years in the latest sign of the humanitarian crisis facing the Biden administration.
Complete horseshit you got straight of Fox News. Obama deported more people than your orange god dummy. So right there, your argument comes crumbling down. Learn to think for yourself and stop swallowing talking points.
There is no intention at all, and it is happening due to internal demographic changes more so than through immigration, and the Democrats have nothing to do with it. More Fox News talking points.
What a brainwashed, talking point spewing lemming.
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