{"id":5804,"date":"2021-08-12T16:33:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T16:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5804"},"modified":"2021-08-12T16:33:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T16:33:17","slug":"democrats-infrastructure-gamble-actually-seems-like-it-could-be-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5804","title":{"rendered":"Democrats\u2019 infrastructure gamble actually seems like it could be working"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Biden\u2019s statements on the legislation were crucial to advancing it. When the president met with lawmakers in June, he pledged that he wouldn\u2019t push to include any physical infrastructure funding in Democrats\u2019 reconciliation bill that wasn\u2019t included in the bipartisan one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/08\/10\/senate-infrastructure-bipartisan-partnership-502722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">As Politico\u2019s Burgess Everett and Marianne LeVine reported<\/a>, that position helped assuage some of the Republican senators\u2019 concerns that Democrats would agree to whatever cuts were needed to gain GOP support before later passing everything that was cut using the reconciliation process, which requires only a Senate majority. Taking Biden at his word that what was cut from the bill was gone forever allowed many Republicans to give the bipartisan bill their support, according to Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT).&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/8\/11\/22618336\/infrastructure-bill-bipartisan-reconciliation\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/8\/11\/22618336\/infrastructure-bill-bipartisan-reconciliation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Biden\u2019s statements on the legislation were crucial to advancing it. When the president met with lawmakers in June, he pledged that he wouldn\u2019t push to include any physical infrastructure funding in Democrats\u2019 reconciliation bill that wasn\u2019t included in the bipartisan one.<\/p>\n<p>As Politico\u2019s Burgess Everett and Marianne LeVine reported, that position helped assuage some of the Republican senators\u2019 concerns that Democrats would agree to whatever cuts were needed to gain GOP support before later passing everything that was cut using the reconciliation process, which requires only a Senate majority. Taking Biden at his word that what was cut from the bill was gone forever allowed many Republicans to give the bipartisan bill their support, according to Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT).&#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":[773,542,1262,1247,780,906,506],"class_list":["post-5804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-compromise","tag-congress","tag-democrats","tag-infrastructure","tag-joe-biden","tag-legislation","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804","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=5804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5805,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions\/5805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}