So doing nothing is being liberal, got you.

Trillion plus in social spending is nothing, tell that to mitch

I would say doing nothing is conservative, but they do nothing while managing to impede anything dems propose

Infrastructure Update (Nov. 15): Passed ✅

The President signed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill into law on Monday

The American Jobs Plan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed in the House with a vote of 228-206. It passed the Senate in August with a vote of 69-30

A bipartisan framework, it was supported by 13 Republicans in the House and 19 in the Senate.

It had stalled in the House for months, allowing multiple crises from the debt ceiling to the supply chain to take precedent. The President’s empty-handed trip to a climate conference in Europe at the end of October, and a major loss in a Governors’ race on Election Day gave the Dems a sense of urgency to come together for a final vote

Members of the House secured the necessary votes to pass the bill with a promise that the larger Build Back Better Act would be voted on before Thanksgiving

Six members of The Squad, including AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley, voted against the framework in protest. AOC explained on social media that her vote was due to the infrastructure bill being decoupled from the upcoming $1.7 trillion social spending package

For months, Progressives demanded that both bills be passed together, distrustful of conservatives like Joe Manchin, who they believed would block the more progressive bill if the more moderate one passed first

Last Friday five centrist Democrats made a written commitment to Pramila Jayapal, leader of the Progressive Caucus, to “vote for the Build Back Better Act, in its current form other than technical changes, as expeditiously as we receive fiscal information from the Congressional Budget Office.” They also promised a vote by the week of Nov. 15

The President said last Saturday he is confident Democrats will pull together the necessary votes to pass BBB

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act — $1.2 Trillion infrastructure bill

congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3684/text

Okay so obviously the upcoming Build Back Better Act will be more substantial but it’s important not to ignore how important this infrastructure law is.

It contains $550 billion in funding over 10 years for repairing roads, bridges and highways, expanding internet access and upgrading the power grid

✅ $110 billion for repairing and replacing roads, bridges and highways

✅ $29 billion for public transit, including funding for state and local governments to buy zero-emission and low-emission buses

✅ $66 billion for passenger and freight rail

✅ $65 billion for expanding high-speed broadband access in rural areas, low-income families and tribal communities via state grants

✅ $65 billion for upgrading the power grid, improvements to source electricity from renewable energy like clean hydrogen, and investments for carbon capture technologies

✅ $55 billion for water infrastructure, including $15 billion to replace every lead pipe in the US and $10 billion to target water contamination from the production of Teflon and other chemicals

✅ $50 billion to fight fires, floods, storms and droughts caused by climate change

✅ $25 billion to improve runways, gates and taxiways at airports and to improve terminals. It would also improve aging air traffic control towers

✅ $7.5 billion for building a national network of electric vehicle charging stations

✅ $5 billion for replacing diesel school buses with electric and hybrid vehicles

Among other things

The White House believes that the investments will add, on average, about 2 million jobs per year over the next decade

Social + Climate Update: Passed the House 🗳

Front page of The New York Times on Saturday

On Friday, Democrats in the House passed their version of the Build Back Better Act with a vote of 220-213

The $1.75 Trillion spending plan includes provisions to expand the country’s social safety net and combat climate change, in addition to increasing taxes on corporations and the wealthy

Moderates in the House had vowed to support the progressive legislation, but only if the Congressional Budget Office confirmed it would be paid for.

On Thursday night, the CBO confirmed that BBB would not add to inflationary pressures, although it would add between $200 to $400 billion to the deficit.

The bill now goes to the Senate for more negotiations. Since April it was planned to be voted on through budget reconciliation, which will require consensus from all 50 Democratic senators in order to pass. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer has said that he expects a vote by the end of next month.

No Republicans in the House voted for the bill

good work man

Yes

based

if real this is the only good thing biden has done/will have done, but it's also only been a year so im sure he'll pump the numbers back to normal in the next 3 years, that disgusting drone strike in kabul probably a sign of the future

Other tweet got deleted. But holy s***, people really gonna fall for this?

Ofcourse the drone attacks gonna drop. He don't need to "protect" american interests in afghanistan anymore. The soldiers are out duhhhh....

A good comparison would be the number of Afghans being unjustly punished this year vs last year.

the drone strikes all but stopped in other countries as well

When you f*** up to the degree he did inAfghanistan you got no option but to keep lowley for a while.

Bro you gotta use your brain to a***yze events. You shouldn't just buy into a rhetoric.

he f***ed up by getting out of a useless war? Huh, interesting

Story behind this?

He f***ed up the sequencing and handed it over it to an Oligarchic organization. Then he topped it up by f***ing up a drone attack and killing innocent afghan civilians amidst the s***storm.

Ofcourse he has to keep lowkey.

By the way this didn't age well

youre right we shouldve just stayed there then

things in war should always go smoothly so we shouldve stayed because it wasnt 100% smooth

Just because one thing is wrong doesnt mean the other thing is right stop it with the Maqalata.

The west been meddling with middle east since forever indirectly and also very directly. Even world war II was won on the back of millions of middle easterners dying but that part never get mentioned in school history books.

This time they outdid themselves by handing the fate of millions of people to an Oligarchic organization that their secret agencies originally funded. A tribe of people with 7th century ideals.

Just Republican M.O. He (like every other Republican) voted against the infrastructure bill. Now he took out an ad in the paper taking credit for his rural Virginia constituents getting upgraded to broadband internet, which is happening largely due to Federal money from covid relief. Folks out there in the mountains with dial up still and their elected officials are voting against upgrading infrastructure

There’s been a lot of weird and sketchy s*** going on with RDOF funding. We’re still waiting on our funding yet someone like Elon can bid on a plot of land with only an off ramp, no homes, and get 700 million in funding. We can’t even get like 1/8th of that and we cover 6 counties. Or how companies like Windstream who have been bankrupt before, have their funding, but rural coops like us are still waiting.

Besides us, I feel like this bill is gonna flounder like the broadband bill years ago.

But tbh it doesn’t matter who gets their funding now since every thing is 6 months out

We heard GPON cards became 9 months out and we’re ordering for huts we have planned next year.