What you’re not hearing about the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the budget reconciliation bill

The Bipartisan Infrastructure and Jobs Act has a good chance of passing, and is certain to cause the budget reconciliation bill to fail. The GOP has been dealt a poor hand, and have played it well by isolating elements of Biden's spending proposals -- those that are easy to understand, popular in swing districts, don't raise taxes, and can garner bipartisan support. That leaves the coming budget reconciliation bill holding the bag on difficult to understand and unpopular programs that raise taxes and can only be passed on a Democratic party-line vote. All it takes is three Democratic defections in the House to kill it, and one in the Senate. Already swing-district Dems have told Pelosi they won't consider the budget until the infrastructure bill is law.