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АНУ шиг Senate on Saturday voted to advance a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, progressive lawmakers warned that they will not vote for the proposed legislation if lawmakers don’t also adequately fund human needs such as healthcare, housing, and climate action.
“If the bipartisan bill isn’t passed with a reconciliation package that has our popular priorities, we’re not voting for it.”
-Төлөөлөгч. Прамила Жаяпал
Saturday’s 67-27 Senate cloture vote on the 2,700-page Дэд бүтцийн хөрөнгө оруулалт ба ажлын байрны тухай хууль (pdf) overcame a major barrier to the measure’s passage, although it was unclear when the Senate would hold a final vote on the bill.
“We can get this done the easy way or the hard way,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) гэж хэлсэн on the Senate floor before the vote. “In either case, the Senate will stay in session until we finish our work. It’s up to my Republican colleagues how long it takes.”
The deal—which falls short of the $2.25 trillion originally санал болгосон in President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan, and is far less than the $10 trillion that progressives гэж хэлэв should be spent—includes $550 billion in new infrastructure funding, including for roads and bridges, public transport, railways, broadband internet, port and airport upgrades, power and water system improvements, and environmental remediation.
Notably absent from the deal are progressive agenda items including a 7% corporate tax hike, Medicaid expansion, workforce development, and, critically, measures to address the climate crisis.
Biden took to Twitter Saturday to tout the deal:
Addressing the bill’s climate shortcomings, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse tweeted Saturday that “the plan is to get this bill passed and focus on the reconciliation package next. That’s where the big climate provisions will be.”
Democrats plan to use the reconciliation process to thwart a Republican filibuster of $3.5 trillion in additional spending on progressive priorities including climate action, Medicare expansion, free community college, universal pre-K, and paid family leave, to be funded by tax hikes on corporations and the wealthy.
Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) last month гэж нэрлэдэг the more ambitious progressive proposal “the most significant piece of legislation… since the Great Depression.”
Progressive lawmakers and advocates have lamented what they say are the bipartisan deal’s many inadequacies, with the Congressional Progressive Caucus vowing Saturday to oppose any bill that does not include funding for climate and social agenda items.
As Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) гэж хэлсэн earlier this week, “If the bipartisan bill isn’t passed with a reconciliation package that has our popular priorities, we’re not voting for it.”
Идэвхтэй байна Ардчилал одоо! Энэ долоо хоногийн эхээр Жакобин staff writer Branko Marcetic гэж хэлсэн that “the bipartisan bill, by virtue of having to negotiate with the Republicans, who, of course, are climate deniers and… are captured by corporate interests, including fossil fuels, of course, they do not want a whole host of climate measures in there that are going to compete with those industries or that will… eventually phase them out.”
“So, a lot of that stuff has been stripped down,” Marcetic added. “The clean energy standard, which was meant to be one of the cornerstones of transitioning the United States’ electricity grid away from fossil fuels and to renewable energy, that’s out of the bill.”
As Үл тасалдах мэдээлсэн earlier this week, the bipartisan deal агуулсан $25 billion in potential new fossil fuel subsidies.
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The bill includes billions of dollars for carbon capture, utilization, and storage; hydrogen fuel made from natural gas; and “low emissions buses” that could run on fuels including hydrogen and natural gas. It also encourages subsidies that go unquantified in the legislation, for example urging states to waive property taxes for pipelines to transport captured carbon.
Progressives are also seething at a Republican нэмэлт өөрчлөлт оруулах that would increase Pentagon funding by $50 billion.
Marcetic warned of the potential consequences facing Democrats ahead of the 2022 midterm elections if they do not fight for the provisions in the more ambitious $3.5 trillion proposal.
“It’s going to be very difficult for Democrats to actually hold the House and the Senate,” he told Ардчилал одоо! “If this doesn’t get passed, it will be looked at as a massive missed opportunity that we will really regret, I think, in years to come.”
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