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#TheBenShapiroShow #News #Politics #DailyWirefive senate republicans play the willing suckers for joe biden's big infrastructure plan and biden continues to frighten everyone with bizarre public performances as kamala harris waits in the wings literally i'm ben shapiro this is the ben shapiro show the ben shapiro show is sponsored by expressvpn protect your online privacy today at expressvpn.com ben we'll get to all the news in just one moment first your reminder if you're a responsible human you need to make sure that your family has life insurance against your life god forbid you're walking down the street get hit by a bus it's gonna be terrible for your family on an emotional level obviously but also they're going to lose your stream of income you need to make sure that doesn't happen every responsible person with dependence needs life insurance the best place to get it at the best available price policy genius because policy genius helps you shop life insurance policies 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yesterday afternoon joe biden came out and announced a deal had been reached on infrastructure yay okay so first of all let me just note america's infrastructure is not in serious trouble the notion that america's infrastructure is just awful and bad in every way and it's just horrifying it's not true the vast majority of america's roads and bridges are pretty okay and the vast majority of the ones that are really not doing well are ones that are in particular states which means they really should be state costs not federal costs like the notion that we have much worse infrastructure than anywhere else on earth or that we really need to pour like a trillion dollars minimum two trillion dollars into infrastructure is just not correct but this has become sort of the go-to whenever you are a member of government and you just want to blow money into things all you do is you just say infrastructure because this is something people on a basic level understand right we all sort of understand that the government has a hand in building roads for example because the roads connect all sorts of different communities and so you want the government to shoulder the cost of what is in effect a non-excludable non-rivalrous good right we all sort of get that the roads are at the very least a public good right something that government does we we understand that the government helping to foment the the placing of broadband even is something that that benefits a lot of americans although if you just deregulate it the truth is a lot of these companies can pay for it themselves but we all sort of get the idea that the government should be involved to a certain extent in the infrastructure project because public goods are typically again non-excludable non-rival risk goods in which private people sometimes can't agree okay so does that mean that the federal government needs to spend hundreds of billions of dollars right now on this stuff in the middle of a giant inflationary spiral in which we have a shortage of materials and a shortage of labor of course not of course not but this has become joe biden's big bipartisan push because he figures that if he can get republicans on board for infrastructure then he can pretend that he is a bipartisan president when in fact he's an extremely partisan president now they already passed fairly recently a bipartisan bill that was supposed to send a bunch of money toward quote unquote research and development directed at fighting against china and it passed with wide bipartisan support even though again it is a giant pork bill so there's another giant pork bill now republicans if they had any brands be like nope not interested right because the reality is that you aren't going to spend a lot more money than we would like you to spend and if you're going to do that you can do that on your own like truly if you just want to blow out the deficit for no appreciable gain then you can just do that on your own right make you use reconciliation for it if you want to break the filibuster and you're going to have to do it through the budget process because you only have two or maybe three of those per year waste a bullet on on this infrastructure package and let you own it but no we have to have the quote-unquote moderate wing of the republican party including people like susan collins and mitt romney who decide that it's important to lend bipartisan cover to joe biden now here's the thing they are being played they're obviously being played i'll explain how in just one minute so according to the new york times president biden struck an infrastructure deal on thursday with a bipartisan group of senators signing on to their plan to provide about 579 billion dollars in new investments in roads broadband internet electric utilities and other projects in hopes of moving a crucial crucial piece of his economic agenda through congress biden's endorsement marked a breakthrough in his efforts to forge an infrastructure compromise but here's the thing it was far from a guarantee the package would be enacted both the president and top democrats say the plan which constitutes a fraction of the four trillion dollar economic proposal biden has put forth can only move together with a much larger package of spending and tax increases democrats are planning to try to push through congress unilaterally over the opposition of republicans so here is what biden is doing and this is why these republicans are just adults what he's doing is he's bifurcating this package he's saying what if we pass this part here with bipartisan support but i'm only going to sign the bipartisan part if you guys allow me to vote on and sign this giant other package that's the same thing as just putting it all in the same package what are you talking about okay so in other words he's going to get pretty much what he wants and he's going to get the veil of bipartisanship at the same time so here is joe biden announcing we have a deal we had a really good meeting and answer your direct question we have a deal and uh i think it's really important we've all agreed that uh none of us got what we all were that we wanted i clearly didn't get all i wanted they gave more than i think maybe they were inclined to give in the first place but this reminds me of the days we used to get an awful lot done up in the united states congress we actually worked we had bipartisan deals we got a bipartisan deal except they didn't get a bipartisan deal as we'll explain in just a minute now biden is using this he again to pretend that he is a bipartisan president with wide public support he is not he's got a 52 public approval rating right now okay now that is pretty much the exact same percentage of the popular vote that he won last time around right over the popular vote he won like 51 52 he has not increased that he has not decreased that it's a pretty hard base of support but it's also a hard level of support on the ceiling so as things start to accrue you know as the crime rates continue to remain high as the economy continues to flounder more than it is soaring as all of that happens he's likely to feel some economic pain from some sort of popular pain from that but republicans are providing him a cover for no appreciable gain it makes no sense at all here is biden however saying i'm not going it alone i'm not doing i don't have to go alone anymore i know there are some of my party who discouraged me from seeking an agreement with our republican colleagues who said that we should go bigger and go alone to them i say this i've already shown in my young presidency that i'm prepared to do whatever needs to get done to move the country forward that's what i did with the american rescue plan which is 1.9 trillion dollars let me say this when we can't we can't find common ground though working across party lines that is what i will seek to do except he's not looking for common ground as we'll see what he's looking 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really well this group gets along very well my colleagues in the senate we work together and it's been years and years people have been talking about the infrastructure needs of our country we know that we recognize the crumbling infrastructure and this group came together and actually got a job done oh my god look we got a job except you didn't you didn't quote from the new york times on capitol hill democrats signaled their openness to accepting the initial details of the agreement provided that their moderate colleagues accept a second much larger reconciliation package so in other words we will definitely sign on to this compromise package so long as you also accept this giant pile of manure that we've got right here for you that we're gonna hit you in the face with it really is an amazing thing and so so and by the way this is joe biden agreeing with this plan right so joe biden's like we came to a compromise and then with one hand he's like here's the compromise with the other hand say and here right here what's in this boom and he hits him with the other hand not in a really strong punch there's not a lot of power behind joe biden's punches at this point but at the same time i mean here is joe biden saying i support nancy pelosi's plan to hold the bipartisan infrastructure bill hostage until the senate passes a big reconciliation bill right here he is saying that i'm going to i'm not going to sign this bill alone now normally when you say i've reached a compromise with somebody like you've ever done a contract negotiation with somebody else you do the contract negotiation you finally come to some sort of agreement everybody breaks out the wine and cigars and you're lighting up and then if somebody in the room says oh yeah by the way i'm not signing that unless you also sign this agreement that pays me x that's not an agreement okay so to pretend this is an agreement a triumphant moment of bipartisanship is a lie here is joe biden pretty much making the lie clear do you support vanessa pelosi's stated plan to hold the bipartisan deal in the house until the senate also passes reconciliation do you support that sequencing on her part yes the bipartisan bill from the very beginning was understood there's going to have to be the second part of it not just signing the bipartisan bill and forgetting about the rest i that i proposed i proposed a significant piece of legislation in three parts and all all three parts are equally important okay so in other words all three parts are equally important i put all the stuff that republicans are okay with in one part so we can pretend they agree with it and then i'm gonna ram through the other two pieces of the agreement that they don't agree with right so pretty amazing stuff now here's the reality joe biden is not the president of this particular process joe manchin is the president of this particular process so here is joe manchin the senator from west virginia who is signaling well i'm not so sure about this whole nancy pelosi let's hold the bill hostage idea to say that one's being held hostage to the other doesn't seem to be fair to me but they're going to make those decisions but we have to see what's in the other plan before i can say oh yes you vote for this and i'll vote for that that's not what i have signed up for okay so maybe joe manchin doesn't go along with what joe biden and nancy pelosi are planning here okay that's that's really the only hold up maybe mitt romney and susan collins maybe to their credit maybe they think that they can rely on joe manchin to be the man in the gap here and joe manchin is going to be like no we're going to pass this bipartisan compromise bill on its own and also i'm not going to kill the filibuster or vote for this particular bill if it if the reconciliation project process is used in order to ram it through maybe they're counting on joe manchin let me just say i don't think that that is a particularly wise move instead it looks much more like joe biden gets 99 of what he wants plus he gets this patina of republican of republican bipartisan notions to go along with it so i'll uphond it over at hot air writes about he says if the gop had managed to negotiate biden down to a much less expensive infrastructure built with no tax hikes that might be a worthy compromise but they haven't there are two parts to the democrats infrastructure plan one a bipartisan bill that deals with roads and bridges and the other a party line reconciliation bill that covers quote unquote human infrastructure like climate change spending paid leave and so on spending that doesn't end up in the bipartisan bill will likely just be lateraled over to the reconciliation bill which means republicans aren't achieving much in terms of spending essentially they're pressing on one end of a water balloon shrinking that end but causing the other end to swell as the water is displaced the volume of the balloon is the same whether they're pressing or not it's purely a matter of distribution and frankly if that's the case maybe republicans should have done the opposite of what they did arguing to put more money into the true roads and bridges infrastructure components and thereby hopefully shrinking the human infrastructure reconciliation bill that would have been risky because democrats could pass that human infrastructure bill irrespective of how big the true infrastructure bill gets but maybe if the latter were bigger mansion would get nervous about blowout spending and be more inclined to shrink the other component now biden and pelosi are both nervous about being double crossed by mansion who's been dogged about trying to compromise with republicans so today both the president and speaker issued an ultimatum unless and until both bills pass the senate they won't even move on the bipartisan bill so basically saying imagine we're not even going to vote in the house on the bipartisan bill that joe biden just endorsed until you vote using reconciliation processes for these other blowout spending bills so essentially you're going to hold that roads and bridges bill hostage in order to make sure that manchin does what they want on the giant spending bill well except here's the problem mansion was asked about pelosi's strategy he says there's going to be a reconciliation bill we just don't know what size it's going to be manchin also said he was open to a reconciliation bill that changes the 2017 gop tax law to raise taxes to pay for new spending programs he said reconciliation is inevitable because the republican opposition to raising taxes said he's open to it he said if it's it's the only strategy we have that's to track he says reconciliation is inevitable so maybe he's able to shrink it a little bit but maybe mansion again this just shows you that if joe manchin caucuses with the democrats he's still a democrat and so you can count on joe manchin for one thing and one thing only and that is not ending the filibuster for non-reconciliation bills but for reconciliation bills mainly a reconciliation bill is defined as a budget bill basically for any budget bill which is spending in taxation bill he will just go along with the democrats which means republicans got nothing here it means that depending on which way mansion goes mitt romney and susan collins and the rest of these jokers got played so mansion is the obvious winner he now gets to claim that he forged a bipartisan deal and biden gets to claim that he forged a bipartisan deal republicans get nothing republicans get get nothing okay so it's just it's an amazing failure by these republicans like mitt romney again there is a an aspect of conservatism that is institutionalist in in structure right this sort of the john roberts constitutionalism in which john roberts suggests that the key role that he plays on the supreme court to take an example of this sort of conservatism is to uphold the vigor and and the durability of the institution and it doesn't matter if i rule against the constitution it doesn't matter if i have to rewrite obamacare in order to make it comply with the constitution it doesn't matter if i am constantly forging nine zero unanimous votes that are far smaller in scope in protecting american rights than a 63 majority decision would be john roberts has upheld the institution and you get the same thing here from mitt romney now there is something to upholding the institution right you want to uphold the institution of the filibuster even when you're in control this is what mitch mcconnell was saying he was saying if you get rid of the filibuster here then when democrats take control you're really going to regret it and i think he's right about that but what mitt romney is doing is beyond that what romney and collins are doing is they're saying it is so important that the american people think that we can forge compromise here that i will i will provide the lie that compromise was actually had here even when it wasn't so that you think the american people that the senate can work now here's the thing when it comes to actual popular policy the senate does actually vote overwhelmingly you'll remember that just last week the senate voted 100 nothing to make juneteenth the national holiday for example you'll remember that again there was a bipartisan bill that went forward to spend some hundreds of billions of dollars on research and development supposedly they're basically going to be just subsidies to particular friends of the government to to fight chinese innovation right so it's not that bipartisanship is dead it's that you have to be a not but unfortunately there are too many republicans who want to appear back home like i understand susan collins i really do susan collins from maine right maine is a purple a purple to blue state i understand why susan collins is doing it mitt romney is from the reddest state in america outside of west virginia utah is an extremely red state there is no reason why mitt romney has to sign on to a bill like this mike lee isn't he's from the same exact state there's no reason why mitt romney feels he should have to forge compromise in this way but for some reason again this goes to mitt romney's perception of himself and so much of politics really is how politicians perceive themselves mitt romney perceives himself as a as a deal maker and a person who brings people together in the same way that john mccain used to perceive himself this way right you want to be part of that gang of eight or that gang of ten or that gang of four whatever the gang is because this means you're a very important person a person who gets things done what if the goal of checks and balances is to prevent things from getting done however what if we need to completely shift our mindset with regard to why are we bothering to get things done if they are bad things and let's face it in the end what joe biden is relying on to do what he wants to do here is the the basic fist inside the velvet glove which is the possibility of just killing the filibuster altogether right is that joe biden is figuring that at a certain point mansion is going to cave one way or another or cinema is going to cave one way or another or maybe if he can just cast to get republicans enough they'll kill the filibuster bill clinton i mean it's amazing how far the democratic party has moved bill clinton's presidency was successful entirely because of bipartisan compromise bill clinton's first couple of years he had a democratic congress and he was an awful failure he tried to pass hillary care it bombed he raised capital gains taxes he reigns he raised income taxes and by 1994 republicans had won back congress for the first time in like 30 years so bill clinton's rest of his presidency was negotiating with newt gingrich in order to do things for the american people like welfare reform like a 1994 crime bill that actually were effective on behalf of the american people right this is and now you have bill clinton and he has revised his opinion now the filibuster must be murdered i understand the president's reluctant to get rid of it all together and i'm sympathize with joe manchin who's trying to you know stand up for the right thing and represent people that voted more than two to one for president trump but i think when it comes to preserving democracy you know i would suspend the filibuster because i think it's essential i don't think that we should be in the business of going backwards in trying to drive down voting rights i think we need to expand it okay so again in the end it's pure power politics for these democrats who don't fall for the bipartisan trap it's it is it remains a source of amazement to me that so many republicans are willing to fall for this sort of stuff the the romney's getting played colin's getting played and they're getting nothing out of this they're getting nothing out of this now meanwhile all they really have to do is just stand there that's all they have to do because joe biden is not with us hey joe biden is not a strong president he is in fact a very weak president what he is capable of getting done under these circumstances are it's very limited maybe because let's face it joe manchin is not upholding the filibuster because he's a nice guy joe manchin is upholding the filibuster because he is a blue state senator from a red state because he is a democrat in a state that that donald trump won by i believe 39 points in the last election cycle kristen cinema is not i think congenitally predisposed to loving the filibuster just recognizes that she's got john mccain's old seat basically in arizona a very purple state with a with a red governor and a and a red legislature and so she i think properly and understandably knows where her bread is buttered so with that said joe biden can't get a lot done here so why are republicans helping him to get things done here why he's going to do it anyway make him own it if he's going to do it anyway make him own it i don't understand for the life of me what mitt romney and susan collins think that the republican party broadly speaking gets out of it now the reality is that this because of the democrat trying to the democrats trying to link these two things that they're only going to vote on the bipartisan deal if they also get to ram through this reconciliation bill because of that i think that this thing will probably get filibustered anyway remember you need 60 votes to overcome the filibuster getting five republicans ain't enough you need 10 republicans to kill the filibuster where are they gonna get those other five republicans who go forward with the vote on the bipartisan infrastructure plan if they're simultaneously linking it with a piece of legislation that they're going to ram through in a 50 50 vote with one extra ding from from kamala harris who is sitting as the as the presiding officer in the senate so i think all the talk about bipartisanship is a little bit too early i don't think this is going to actually go to a bipartisan vote on this particular bill and i and you watch the media will then call the republicans obstructionist they'll then say it's the republicans fault so republicans lose on both ends they give joe biden the veneer a bipartisanship and then they themselves are called partisan when they obstruct the bill because it turns out that joe biden has already linked it to another bill that is in fact not bipartisan that is the stupid play stupid games win stupid prizes for the republican party okay in just a second we're going to get to our non-sentient presidents and kamala harris waiting in the wings first let us talk about the fact that you as a company constantly need better employees you do you need great employees if you're a business owner who's hiring you probably face a lot of challenges when it comes to finding the right person for your role that's why hiring can 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