{"id":5661,"date":"2021-07-22T14:59:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T14:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5661"},"modified":"2021-07-22T14:59:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T14:59:44","slug":"the-senates-infrastructure-gamble-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5661","title":{"rendered":"The Senate\u2019s infrastructure gamble, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Senate Democrats are navigating a tricky balancing act: attempting to simultaneously advance both a $600 billion bipartisan infrastructure bill and a $3.5 trillion budget resolution full of Democratic priorities that\u2019s only expected to garner partisan support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This plan, which has colloquially been referred to as the \u201ctwo-track strategy,\u201d is intended to demonstrate that lawmakers can actually work across party lines to get something done on \u201chard\u201d infrastructure, like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22534714\/rail-roads-infrastructure-costs-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">roads<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/e\/22341700\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">airports<\/a>, and that Democrats can also deliver on \u201chuman\u201d infrastructure that\u2019s a party priority but that Republicans won\u2019t support, like funding for long-term caregiving and paid leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a somewhat circuitous approach to approving infrastructure legislation, driven by the focus that moderate Democrats, and President Joe Biden, have put on bipartisanship \u2014 as well as their refusal to alter the filibuster.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/7\/21\/22575946\/senate-infrastructure-gamble-explained-bif\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/7\/21\/22575946\/senate-infrastructure-gamble-explained-bif<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Senate Democrats are navigating a tricky balancing act: attempting to simultaneously advance both a $600 billion bipartisan infrastructure bill and a $3.5 trillion budget resolution full of Democratic priorities that\u2019s only expected to garner partisan support.<\/p>\n<p>This plan, which has colloquially been referred to as the \u201ctwo-track strategy,\u201d is intended to demonstrate that lawmakers can actually work across party lines to get something done on \u201chard\u201d infrastructure, like roads and airports, and that Democrats can also deliver on \u201chuman\u201d infrastructure that\u2019s a party priority but that Republicans won\u2019t support, like funding for long-term caregiving and paid leave.<\/p>\n<p>It is a somewhat circuitous approach to approving infrastructure legislation, driven by the focus that moderate Democrats, and President Joe Biden, have put on bipartisanship \u2014 as well as their refusal to alter the filibuster.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1247,906,865],"class_list":["post-5661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-infrastructure","tag-legislation","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5662,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions\/5662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}