Renewable Revolution

October 13, 2021 BY William Rivers Pitt

Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Rep. Pramila Jayapal speaks to reporters after a closed-door meeting with fellow Progressive Democrats at the U.S. Capitol on October 1, 2021, in Washington, D.C. DREW ANGERER / GETTY IMAGES

SNIPPET:

This was an impossible conundrum: Everything in the bill is important, and quite a lot of it is nothing short of life or death. Everyone with skin in the game was prepared to fight to the knife for their priorities, and the possibility of actual party immolation became more than just an easy headline with a print deadline looming. Talk of doing “fewer things well” had House members seething all over the building, while Republicans stood back and waited for the explosion.

Enter the Congressional Progressive Caucus with a wondrously simple solution: Chop the thing in half.

Read more:
https://truthout.org/articles/progressive-dems-offer-simple-brilliant-path-forward-for-build-back-better-act/