Today, we're going to talk about Democrats finally passing the bipartisan infrastructure

package, along with the election results in Virginia, some reasons that might explain

Democrats' losses and how we can fix it moving forward.

I interview Bradley Whitford about a new documentary he executive produced about Adi Barkin

called Not Going Quietly, and Fox LA host Alex Michelson joins to discuss the chaos surrounding

Democrats trying to get their agenda passed, and the messaging issues that led to Tuesday's

election losses.

I'm Brian Teller Cohen and you're listening to No Lie.

Well, it is infrastructure week, like actually infrastructure week.

The thing Trump promised for four years and couldn't manage to do, Democrats just got

done in less than one.

The house has passed the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package that had already

passed the Senate, meaning it now goes to Biden's desk for his signature, if he hasn't

already signed by the time you listen to this.

Now as far as progressives have been concerned, this bill, the BIF, the bipartisan infrastructure

framework, needed to be linked with the Billback Better Act, the Social Spending Program.

While they didn't pass together, progressives secured a vote on a procedural rule to line

up the passage of the Billback Better Act in the House.

The good news is that the Billback Better Act will be passed out of the House by November

15th, according to the text of that rule.

The bad news is, once it's out of the house, it still has to go through the Senate, where

Manchin and Cinema could still take a chainsaw to it.

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