THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION will, it seems, have gotten or be about to get its coveted “ bipartisan” infrastructure deal by the time this forum is published, by agreeing to divide into two parts the $2.65 trillion American Jobs Plan they laid out in some detail on March 31. They have gotten a first tranche past the filibuster by agreeing to limit their focus for now just to what those Republicans who signed on are calling “actual infrastructure,” defined as roads, bridges, highways, airports, broadband, and the like. Then, if all goes well (which it may well not), they will try to get at least some of what remains by way of “reconciliation,” that Senate quirk which allows for one spending bill a year to become law with the support of just a simple majority. This remainder, if we get it, is expected to include significant new spending to shore up what the administration is selling as the nation’s “care” and “social” infrastructures, to help “revitalize manufacturing, secure U.S. supply chains, invest in R&D, and train Americans for the jobs of the future”; or, as a July 29 Washington Post explainer would have it, it will be spending on “Democratic priorities not traditionally considered part of core U.S. infrastructure.”
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