Friends,
Over the weekend, Congress passed a 1.2T Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework (BIF), an important measure that will infuse unprecedented investment across our nation’s infrastructure impacting everything from bridges and roads, to strengthening water and energy systems and expanding access to broadband. While BIF did pass, and there is some good in this bill, there are glaring deficiencies including the opportunity to end taxpayer funding of the oil and gas polluters most responsible for the climate crisis.
This critical infrastructure bill is an important part of the Biden Administration’s agenda but unfortunately does not fully address the social spending and safety net investments included in the Build Back Better reconciliation package that working families desperately need.
That is why the Squad and the Progressive Caucus stepped up and insisted on both the Infrastructure framework AND the historic Build Back Better package passing together. The Progressive Caucus, the Speaker, and the President all agreed this was the right thing to do.
Unfortunately, last Friday, instead of passing the BIF and BBB together, ensuring essentially that the investment in our human infrastructure was tied to physical infrastructure, only the BIF was voted on.
Understanding that this move to decouple the BIF and the BBB puts the BBB package at risk for significant policy cuts or that it could die altogether, our Squad had the courage under fire to act in the best interest of the people who need it most — the working families of our country - and voted NO on the infrastructure bill as a separate measure.
We salute the work of the Squad for having the courage to ask for more on behalf of the people.
Now, these courageous fighters are taking criticism for holding the line for us. We must stand in solidarity with them to make sure the important measures in the Build Back Better package are not gutted out, or unnecessarily stalled before the holiday recess. The poor, working poor and barely middle class cannot settle for just the Infrastructure bill alone.
There is already a push to delay the vote on the Build Back Better Package until a review from the Congressional Budget Office is completed. We must urgently continue to organize on the outside to keep up the pressure and ensure the BBB passes without compromise.
Will you chip in today to help amplify the message of our progressive movement in support of BBB?
In solidarity,
Nina Turner
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