“President Joe Biden announced on Thursday a hard-earned bipartisan agreement on a pared-down infrastructure plan… [he] said that other White House priorities would be taken on separately in a congressional budget process known as reconciliation, which allows for majority passage without the need for Republican votes. He insisted that the two items would be done ‘in tandem’ and that he would not sign the bipartisan deal without the other, bigger piece.” (AP News)

The left worries that the bipartisan deal is not sufficiently large and urges Democrats to pass additional progressive priorities through reconciliation.

The right is critical of the bipartisan deal, arguing that there is no point in compromise if Democrats will simply pass any progressive priorities that are not in the deal through reconciliation.