Anonymous ID: 2279f5 May 14, 2021, 2:49 p.m. No.13662538   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2551

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/13/biden-progressives-bipartisanship-487727

 

John Podesta’s got a message for Joe Biden: Drop the Republicans

 

Influential leaders on the left fear the president is squandering precious time and political capital in his attempt at bipartisanship.

Anonymous ID: 2279f5 May 14, 2021, 2:51 p.m. No.13662551   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2595

>>13662538

>John Podesta’s got a message for Joe Biden: Drop the Republicans

 

“It’s a risky strategy,” John Podesta, the founder of the left-leaning Center for American Progress, told POLITICO.

 

Podesta, the measured former counselor to President Barack Obama whose words carry weight among Democrats, is among more than a dozen liberal leaders and groups who signed a letter urging the White House and congressional leaders to act quickly on his massive $4 trillion infrastructure proposal, casting it as a once-in-a-lifetime moment that Democrats should seize on now.

 

Biden’s proposal encompasses a broad spectrum of ambitious initiatives, from fixing roads and bridges to investing in clean energy projects and expanding early education. Republicans have made clear they would not consider initiatives that are not so-called “hard” infrastructure, like roads, bridges and tunnels, and they’re only willing to spend significantly less.

 

“Those who argue for small-minded measures are on the wrong side of history,” Podesta and the others write in the letter, delivered to the White House and Democratic House and Senate leaders on Thursday and shared first with POLITICO. Other signatories include the Service Employees International Union, Environmental Defense Fund and Working Families Party. They’re urging Congress to use a parliamentary procedure known as budget reconciliation, which only requires 50 votes, avoiding a Republican filibuster.

 

While Podesta said he and the letter’s other authors recognize the president’s negotiations with Republicans are likely needed to secure enough Democratic support for the plans in the end, they want to see more of a sense of urgency from the White House.

 

“They are smart people, and they've been successful and effective, so I respect that,” Podesta said of Biden’s advisers. “But [talking] only works for so long. The clock is ticking. Would we rather just do one big package for reconciliation? You bet.”

Anonymous ID: 2279f5 May 14, 2021, 2:53 p.m. No.13662569   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2575

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>>13662544

>that is how I know nothing substantial is happening…

 

maybe they are just regrouping.

they are running out of money or they wouldn't have hacked Colonial Pipeline for money.

 

nothing they've done here has worked for them.

they really need to try something new, but I don't think they have the money.

Anonymous ID: 2279f5 May 14, 2021, 2:54 p.m. No.13662576   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2708 >>2810

>>13662547

>At today's House Armed Services Committee hearing, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) expressed worry that today's brightest minds are working on "likes and shares and memes" rather than on genuine national security-based defense initiatives and programs.

 

notable….Gaetz is calling you faggots

Anonymous ID: 2279f5 May 14, 2021, 3:02 p.m. No.13662642   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>13662629

bee's coming

hillary wants to save the bees

hillary gave ardern a book about bees

Mo writes a book a bout a bee coming

 

they have a bunch of stings in store for us