2021 Hard Infrastructure Bill

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If the GOP filibuster it, or fail to get 5 other GOPers on board, then the Dems simply roll it all into the reconciliation bill and pass it with 50 votes and the GOP get zero credit for fixing our infrastructure nor for the 10s of millions of new good paying jobs it creates.


Manchin[edit | edit source]

OK with 2-track and Trump tax repeal[edit | edit source]

Manchin went on record on 6/23 saying that he is ok with this two-track approach and that reconciliation was "inevitable" and that he wanted to rescind parts of Trump's 2017 tax giveaway.

Manchin told NBC News that "human infrastructure" should constitute a follow-up package. "I've come to the knowledge, basically, that budget reconciliation is for reconciling budgets. So it's money matters," he said.

"Republicans have drawn a line in the sand on not changing anything, and I thought the 2017 tax bill was a very unfair bill, and weighted to a side that basically did not benefit the average American. So I voted against it," Manchin said. "I think there are some adjustments that need to be made."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/manchin-open-biden-s-human-infrastructure-plans-undoing-some-trump-n1272057

Media[edit | edit source]

Fake "Fury" at 2 track June 25th[edit | edit source]

We have know for weeks there was linkage. Even McConnell knew.

https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1408466079706497028?s=20


Thune on 6/14: “You can make the argument that Democrats — if there's a bipartisan deal on the infrastructure pieces, and all that’s left is voting for the tax increases and all the social spending — that it’d be awful hard to get some of those moderate Democrats to be for that.” https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1408509692368900100?s=20


From April: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/business/biden-manchin-infrastructure.html

https://twitter.com/RepDonBeyer/status/1408475822021877764?s=20


Here is GOP Sen. Roy Blunt talking about this 2-track method back in April on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xp15zEcWUE

The Bipartisan Deal[edit | edit source]

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday June 24, 2021 embraced a bipartisan Senate deal to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure projects, building roads, bridges and highways and helping stimulate the economy.[1]

Here are some of the details of the bipartisan framework released by the White House, valued at $1.2 trillion over eight years, $579 billion of which is new spending:

New Spending[edit | edit source]

  • Roads, bridges and other major projects: $109 billion
  • Power infrastructure, including grid authority: $73 billion
  • Passenger and freight rail: $66 billion
  • Broadband infrastructure: $65 billion
  • Water infrastructure, such as eliminating lead pipes: $55 billion
  • Public transportation: $49 billion
  • Resilience (preparing infrastructure for the impacts of climate change such as floods and other extreme weather events, and cyber attacks): $47 billion
  • Airports: $25 billion
  • Environmental remediation: $21 billion
  • Creation of an Infrastructure Financing Authority focused on clean transportation and clean energy: $20 billion
  • Ports, waterways: $16 billion
  • Safety, including grants to add bike lanes and other steps to protect vulnerable road users: $11 billion
  • Electric vehicle infrastructure, including chargers: $7.5 billion
  • Electric buses, transit: $7.5 billion
  • Western water shortage: $5 billion

Financing[edit | edit source]

The plan includes a number of proposals to finance the spending. Republicans sketched out those plans:

  • Improve tax enforcement: Net increase of $100 billion after $40 billion invested in enforcement
  • Public-private partnerships and "direct-pay" municipal bonds: $100 billion
  • Redirecting unused COVID-19 relief funds: $80 billion
  • Proceeds from 5G wireless networks spectrum auction: $65 billion
  • Estimated macroeconomic impact of infrastructure investment: $58 billion
  • Redirecting unused unemployment insurance money returned from U.S. states: $25 billion
  • Reinstating Superfund fees for chemicals. Superfund, the program for cleaning up the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites, was originally financed primarily through taxes on petroleum products, chemicals and corporate income: $13 billion
  • Extending expiring customs user fees: $6.1 billion
  • Sale of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve: $6 billion

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ^ "Factbox: What's in the U.S. Senate's $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan?". Reuters. Reuters. 24 June 2021. Retrieved 24 June 2021. 

See also[edit | edit source]