Buzzing listlessly around Washington this week like an overfed mosquito is the idea of reviving what was once called the “human infrastructure” bill, which was then euphemized as Build Back Better, and is now the legislation with no name.
My favorite description of the suite of social welfare and environmental spending came from Politico, which referred to it as Democrats’ “signature spending bill,” as if it were describing an appetizer at Chili’s.
Chris Stirewalt is a contributing writer for The Dispatch, the politics editor for The Hill and NewsNation, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, co-host of the Ink Stained Wretches podcast, and author of Broken News, a book on media and politics.
