Ed Markey says there’s gotta be an “unbreakable guarantee” that this bipartisan infrastructure deal gets paired with a Dem reconciliation bill filled with progressive priorities
Progressive Dems are describing this bipartisan infrastructure deal as actually just part of a giant package that includes the rest of their agenda.

“It may be multiple votes, but it’s one deal,” Warren told me.

m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_60…
I have tried asking Senate Republicans if they’ll vote for infrastructure knowing it’s linked to this other bill but the question might be too confusing when you haven’t seen the infra deal in the first place and you’re going up an escalator and getting on an elevator
Separately I have tried asking Dems if they noticed the infra payfors are totally wacky but they make the rules so what do they care

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25 Jun
Republicans who negotiated the infra deal are mad Joe Biden insisted the bill go with a reconciliation package.

This insistence originally came from Hill Dems whose votes are needed to pass the infra bill.
I heard "it's one deal," "unbreakable guarantee" and "they have to be connected" from 3 Senate Dems yesterday before Biden endorsed the deal.

Presumably Joe Biden wants the bill to pass!
set aside whether Republicans should have been surprised by what Biden said -- it seems really straightforward that the bill needs all 50 Dem votes so if the liberal ones demand it go with a reconciliation bill, well, they have as much leverage as anyone else
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24 Jun
It is hard to see how this works since the unemployment money is only spent based on people claiming benefits. It wasn’t like they delivered a pile of moneybags to the labor department and can go pick up the leftovers.
Somebody please tell me if I am wrong. I went asking about the “unspent” funds a few weeks ago and that was what I heard then.
Of course there is always a budget gimmick, such as calling a policy temporary when you intend it to be permanent, so I should maybe get off the fainting couch
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4 Jun
NEW: Joe Biden has conceded the political argument over unemployment benefits. Story w/ @taragolshan huffpost.com/entry/joe-bide…
👀@nmarquez_nicole of @NelpNews called Biden's comments "hugely disappointing"👀
No Democrat had said September would be the right time for the extra benefits to end. They pushed it back from August so Congress would be in session and they could extend the benefits again.

Biden said today it "makes sense" for the benefits to end then. So it shall be.
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4 Jun
I hereby declare the jobs report "not bad"
It's not great, either. Leisure industry added 292k jobs despite "labor shortage," last month revised up only slightly, labor force shrank a little
Economists expected 671k jobs, and we got 559k. A small disappointment even though it's better than any month in the entire decade before the pandemic.
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3 Jun
.@Phil_Lewis_ and I talked to US labor secretary Marty Walsh, who would prefer if people didn’t flip out about tomorrow’s jobs report huffpost.com/entry/marty-wa…
Last month’s bad report might have been a fluke, and will def be revised, but it had real consequences as red states rushed to cancel extra unemployment benefits.
Bernie Sanders has said Walsh should use his legal authority to keep the benefits flowing. DOL hasn’t said much about this.

“We’re looking into that,” Walsh said.
Read 4 tweets
20 May
Big flip flop by 16 Republicans who cosponsored a commission bill in January, then voted against a very similar commission bill yesterday huffpost.com/entry/republic…
The bills have similar commission setup, w/ an equal party split, and the same subpoena power.

“It’s a whole different situation,” Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) told me.

It's not that different!
One difference is the GOP bill woulda let 2 members of Congress serve on the commission.

Another is the GOP bill woulda given the commission 18 months to file its report, probably be LESS advantageous to Republicans than the House-passed bill, which calls for report this year.
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