Um, I'm gonna wrap things up here. Did anyone else want to say anything before we close?

I think we've been going for a while. I got a pee.

Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast. I'm Galen Drick.

Last week, the Biden administration announced its next big legislative push.

$2.3 trillion in spending on infrastructure and jobs.

It would be paid for over 15 years by raising the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%.

And Democrats are hoping to pass it by some time this summer.

We're gonna discuss what the public thinks of the plan and what the challenges might be in getting

it passed. We're also gonna take a look at how the Republican Party is reacting to its recent

electoral losses. Oftentimes when parties lose elections, they do some soil searching and try to

figure out how to make themselves more appealing to American voters. Democrats did that after 2016,

Republicans did that after 2012. It's a process that goes back decades. So are Republicans

conducting any 2020 post-mortems? And if not, why? Here with me to discuss our Senior Politics

Redder, Perry Bacon Jr. Hey Perry. Hey Galen. Also with us is Politics Editor, Sir,

Frostensen, Hey Sarah. Hey Galen. And managing editor, Micah Cohen. Hey, Micah. Hey Galen.

So let's begin with infrastructure. Biden's plan, which the administration is calling the American

Jobs Plan, includes $621 billion in transportation spending, which makes up 27% of the plan

according to the Washington Post. It also includes things not traditionally thought of as infrastructure,

like $400 billion expansion of care services under Medicaid. We'll get into what any sticking

points might be. But to kick things off, let's ask one of our favorite questions, which of course,

is good use of polling or bad use of polling. So Biden and his administration have adopted an idea

of bipartisanship that is very polling driven. They say that because their initiatives,

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