this is a surprising announcement, a weird choice of area and demographic and they are not saying much about it yet, the article basically says nothing cause the White House has given no details:

^ that was 10 hrs. ago. 3 hrs. ago >

now >

op-ed published by Fox News:

Kabuki shows in spades. The first four here are all at The Hill right now. Then there's the Utah Gov's retweet of Mitt's tweet.  What did that Geo. Packer article say? Four parts? Is like quadrapatisanship?

Democrats seek to calm nervous left

BY CRISTINA MARCOS - 06/24/21 05:57 PM EDT

Democratic leaders are trying to assure nervous progressives that their priorities for climate change, paid family leave and other “human infrastructure” can still be delivered even with President Biden embracing a much more narrowly focused Senate infrastructure deal.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made clear Thursday that the House won’t vote on any bipartisan infrastructure deal until the Senate also passes a larger package with Democratic priorities through the budget reconciliation process that can evade a GOP filibuster.

It was a move by Pelosi intended to calm the unrest among liberals, and it sent a strong signal to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue as well [.....]

McConnell slams Biden for already 'caving' to left on infrastructure deal

BY ALEXANDER BOLTON - 06/24/21 05:40 PM EDT

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday afternoon slammed President Biden for “caving” to his left flank after the president endorsed a bipartisan $579 billion, five-year infrastructure framework and then threatened to veto it if it’s not accompanied by a much larger reconciliation package.

“Less than two hours after publicly commending our colleagues and actually endorsing the bipartisan agreement, the president took the extraordinary step of threatening to veto it. It was a tale of two press conferences,” McConnell said on the floor.

McConnell’s criticism is the latest sign that the Democratic strategy of trying to pass Biden’s infrastructure on two tracks consisting of a scaled-down bipartisan package and a larger partisan reconciliation package will be difficult to pull off [....]

Manchin says Democratic-only infrastructure bill 'inevitable'

BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 06/24/21 03:30 PM EDT

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said on Thursday that it was "inevitable" that Democrats would move forward with a separate, Democrat-only infrastructure package — it was just a question of what the size and scope will be.  

"Reconciliation is inevitable because basically Republicans I understand on the tax they don't want to undo anything on the 2017 [bill]. For those who didn't vote for 2017, there should be some adjustments. I'm open to that," Manchin told reporters.  

Manchin's remarks are a huge boon for Democrats because the party needs all 50 of its members to support reconciliation — the budget process that lets them bypass the 60-vote legislative filibuster [....]

Biden says he won't sign bipartisan bill without reconciliation bill

BY ALEX GANGITANO AND MORGAN CHALFANT - 06/24/21 03:01 PM EDT

President Biden on Thursday said he won’t sign the bipartisan infrastructure deal if Congress doesn’t also pass a reconciliation bill, committing to a dual track system to get both bills passed.

“I expect that in the coming months this summer, before the fiscal year is over, that we will have voted on this bill, the infrastructure bill, as well as voted on the budget resolution. But if only one comes to me, this is the only one that comes to me, I’m not signing it. It’s in tandem,” Biden told reporters at the White House.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that the House would not vote on a bipartisan infrastructure bill until the Senate passes a larger set of Democratic priorities through budget reconciliation.

Biden said he agreed with the Speaker on the sequencing [....]