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Yes sad, but still a helluva lot more if the GOP was still in control. I am happy to take what we can get.

We have to remember, even if we cleared out the GQP and restored the old GOP, they would still be balking at the bill in a big way. One constant for the GOP has been low taxes, low spending. Don't expect them to stop that. The only way to get more is to get more Democratic reps and senators. Until then, there will be many half-a-loafs.

Winning an election does not mean you get everything you want. The GOP had a larger majority in Trump's firs term and still managed to not get rid of one of their greatest boogie men, ACA (granted, some of them don't want to pass more than tax cuts and some culture war stuff, because they need to use ACA and immigration issues to campaign on, not actually fix).
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So there’s apparently a put together bill, 2000+ pages.

There’s this… the Federal share of any program could be anywhere between 100 and 0%.

They actually have to spell that out?

And I’d bet you could ask someone like Louie Gohmert if he would be in favor of reducing the Fed minimum share and he would say “Yes”.

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How bridges were built centuries ago. Prague.







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Thank you for the bridge vid.
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GOP yes votes, per @alizaslav
— Roy Blunt, Shelley Moore Capito, Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, Kevin Cramer, Mike Crapo, Chuck Grassley, John Hoeven, Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman, Jim Risch, Mike Rounds, Mitt Romney, Thom Tillis, Todd Young, Deb Fischer, Cornyn
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Ask and ye shall receive.
'A disgrace': Trump melts down on Mitch McConnell over infrastructure package
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Slim Cognito wrote: Sat Aug 07, 2021 8:19 pm Ask and ye shall receive.
'A disgrace': Trump melts down on Mitch McConnell over infrastructure package
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-mcconnell-2654559174/
If the same package came through when he was still POTUS, he would be lauding it. He is only mad because Biden is getting things accomplished when he could not. It's not about the infrastructure package, it's about who gets the credit (and McConnell will get some for helping it get through).
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And of course, they're liking that tweet :whistle:
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How many irate calls is Fox going to get over "former" something something trump?
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Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates said his climate investment fund will commit $1.5 billion for joint projects with the U.S. government if Congress enacts a program aimed at developing technologies that lower carbon emissions.

A roughly $1 trillion infrastructure bill passed by the Senate this week would give the Energy Department $25 billion for demonstration projects funded through public-private partnerships, part of more than $100 billion to address climate change. The House hasn’t yet approved the legislation.

Mr. Gates, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, said a fund run by his Breakthrough Energy could spend the money over three years on projects aimed at slowing the greenhouse-gas emissions that cause climate change. The Breakthrough projects, which would have to compete with other applicants for the funds, could include emissions-free fuel for planes and technology to suck carbon dioxide out of the air.

“Critical for all these climate technologies is to get the costs down and to be able to scale them up to a pretty gigantic level,” Mr. Gates said. “You’ll never get that scale up unless the government’s coming in with the right policies, and the right policy is exactly what’s in that infrastructure bill.”
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The Aiken County Republican Party in South Carolina announced Friday it voted to censure Senator Lindsey Graham over his support of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package.

The group said in a statement to Newsweek Saturday that the vote was not against "realistic achievable and necessary infrastructure projects" and that it understands the importance of strong infrastructure including roads, bridges and rural broadband internet access.

"Senator Graham failed to live up to the conservative Republican principles that we elected him to follow by supporting a bill that does not put strong limits on ambiguous Green focused studies and pork barrel projects that don't really address the true needs in rural America," according to the statement.

The group is concerned about "runaway spending of the post Covid recovery that seems to have a lot of federal strings attached." It feels the bill did not do enough to limit green infrastructure spending or protect businesses' investment in infrastructure projects.
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