If Republicans Dictate the Infrastructure Bill.

We can already anticipate their strategy before they use it, and Democrats are falling right into the trap.

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Over five months into the Biden administration and the covid 19 relief bill well behind us, Democratic lawmakers have decided to invest their political capital in the passage of a desperately needed infrastructure bill. A bill that — the way it was originally written at least — would not only create good paying green energy jobs to repair the country’s crumbling roads and bridges, but invest in human infrastructure as well like at home care for the nation’s elderly.

But of course, the $2.2 trillion plan proposed by the Biden administration is already being picked apart.

Needless to say there has been plenty of room for disappointment when it comes to this legislative proposal, considering the fact that the Republican’s idea of infrastructure consisted of a measly $528 billion as opposed to the Democrats’ $2.2 trillion. When Republicans wouldn’t even come up a counter offer and Biden responded by reducing his proposal to $1.7 trillion, the tone was all but set for what we can come to expect as this bill is “negotiated”. Republicans are being allowed to dictate Biden’s infrastructure bill, and we can already see the GOP’s strategy play…