16 thoughts on “Infrastructure Bill Passes Congress

  1. I haven’t seen the details of what’s in it, but it sounds like a very good thing.
    With the vaccine mandates and cases dropping, with the strengthening jobs numbers, I am cautiously optimistic.Report

    1. My blue county in an overall blue state has reached 118% occupancy of ICU beds. This past week the governor started restricting access to care statewide. I’m not overly concerned about covid itself — my wife and I got our boosters this week — but if a drunk driver t-bones us, it’s stabilize and ship us who knows where.Report

        1. Both? At least locally, the hospitals have been upgrading the next lower level of space to handle ICU duties (equipment, gases, etc). They’ve hired traveling nurses to increase the staff. There are limits to how much of that they can do.Report

          1. What’s causing so many new cases?
            We have had a readily available vaccine for a while now and the common knowledge of how to prevent transmission.

            I can’t figure it out.Report

            1. At least locally, my county’s northern border is with Wyoming, that has (I believe) the second lowest vaccination rate in the country. We have always been where Wyoming’s ICU cases overflow. Or even arrive initially, because we have care levels that simply don’t exist there. That’s understandable — if we attached Wyoming to Colorado as a county, it would be fourth by population.Report

  2. It’s generally good news. it means that a critical failure outcome; BBB failing and the infrastructure bill being killed in the house out of incoherence or spite; is off the table. It’ll give Biden more resources to work away at the economy and it can theoretically give the Dems something to campaign on.

    It ain’t the whole ballgame but it is moving the ball down the field.Report

    1. If they can get the spending bill through as well in 2 weeks (or at all) I’d consider it a pretty successful stint in power, relative to the constraints they’re operating under of course.Report

      1. I agree. If the Democratic Party manage to get any version of the reconciliation bill through it’ll be an enormously productive legislative session but in objective terms and especially in comparison to what the GOP manages to accomplish during their trifecta windows.Report

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