EPISODE · Sep 9, 2021 · 34 MIN
Equal Time with Mary C Curtis: Reconciliation, infrastructure and the social safety net
from CQ Roll Call Policy and Politics · host CQ Roll Call
President Joe Biden made clear from his first day in office that social justice issues are at the top of his economic agenda. A "human" infrastructure bill remains on Congress's to-do list, which includes subsidies for child care, education, paid leave, health care, clean energy programs — in other words, a social safety net. But to get this partisan, largely unwritten measure passed, Democrats have embraced the budget reconciliation process. Mary C. Curtis speaks first to Norman Ornstein, emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, to unpack the reconciliation process. To discuss the friction within the Democratic party on this measure and more, Curtis turns to DNC Chair Jaime Harrison on what's at stake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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President Joe Biden made clear from his first day in office that social justice issues are at the top of his economic agenda. A "human" infrastructure bill remains on Congress's to-do list, which includes subsidies for child care, education, paid leave, health care, clean energy programs — in other words, a social safety net. But to get this partisan, largely unwritten measure passed, Democrats have embraced the budget reconciliation process. Mary C. Curtis speaks first to Norman Ornstein, emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, to unpack the reconciliation process. To discuss the friction within the Democratic party on this measure and more, Curtis turns to DNC Chair Jaime Harrison on what's at stake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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