Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

Like they don't have to be these giant omnibus whatevers that are so hard to negotiate that take forever and then maybe pass or maybe not pass.

We have to be like, you know, Mamdani and filling potholes, right? Legislative potholes need to be fixed right now, you know, so that we can say, we fixed this thing that I can actually tell you about, right? I mean, I was just talking to someone the other day who didn't remember that we had a trifecta at the beginning of the Biden administration and they were like, what did they do? And I said, well, the Infrastructure Act.

And they're like, what's that? And I'm like,

oh,

I will say the big picture on any type of legislative vehicle.

I had a good friend that worked with me during the during the days when we were trying to pass the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act in 2021 as a part of this.

And he kept saying to me, yeah.

A bill needs to die five times before it can actually pass.

And in 2018, when we flipped the House, We passed all sorts of great legislative bills.

A lot of that became the guts of Build Back Better, which, of course, became the Infrastructure Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the Chips and Science Act.

So we'll work up that legislation, but passing it is a 2028 problem.

Now, my one piece of optimism, Donald Trump is today four or five points higher in favorability than Nixon was when the Republican Party turned on him.

They love to take credit for democratic successes.

And one of the more recent ones in recent memory is the Infrastructure Act by the Biden administration.

And the Republicans went out and voted against it.

And then once the infrastructure started in communities, you would see these Republican congresspeople at the ribbon cuttings acting like they didn't vote against it because they know that these policies are popular with people.