The Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure proposal is set to move forward on Wednesday night, after Senate Republican negotiators appeared to lock down the necessary votes. As of Wednesday afternoon, at least 10 Republicans were expected to vote to advance an unfinished bill after tanking the effort last week. But even if the Senate agrees to begin considering the bipartisan framework, final passage remains uncertain.
The reason passage is uncertain is you have to get 60 votes again to finish the debate a few days down the line.
Isn’t there also a debt ceiling coming up? Playing an effective blame game might be the least bad option. Having people primed for „Republicans obstructing again“ than „Biden administration can’t get anything moving“.
The absolute fastest train that Acela runs is from NYC to DC, and it takes 3 hours in a dream scenario, usually closer to 4 because lol Amtrak shares the tracks with freight trains. It’s the same as driving and it is an embarrassment. In Japan it would take an hour, and they’re building on fault lines.
If it’s in SoCal it’s probably not a good long term investment. I think it’s reasonable to expect much of the Southwest US will become uninhabitable at current population levels in the next few decades. Gonna be tough to sell when there’s no water.
AZ is in even worse shape. California can at least theoretically turn to desalination plants for water. If the Salt River reservoirs dry up, Phoenix is done.
