Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm your host Sarah Isger joined by Steve Hayes, Jonah

Goldberg and David French. This week lots to talk about. The Biden administration is unveiling

a $2 trillion infrastructure package. We got to talk about vaccine passports and the soft

launch of the 2024 campaigns plus the decline of church membership.

Let's dive right in Steve, $2 trillion infrastructure package.

$2 trillion infrastructure package that is likely to be the first of two major infrastructure

packages, the other one costing potentially as much as this $2.3 trillion proposed package

from the White House. We're just getting details of the White House's proposal. We've

known that the White House wanted to do this. We've known roughly that they wanted to break

it up into two different proposals, but we're now seeing some of the details. $600 billion

for America's infrastructure, $300 billion for domestic manufacturers, $200 billion

in housing infrastructure, lots of additional priorities. They're pitching this as a jobs

plan, as a climate change plan, national broadband, modernizing the power grid, upgrading

school facilities, research and development projects, drinking water is safe. If it's a priority

of Democrats, it's likely somewhere in this bill or will be in the next one. How are they

going to pay for it? The White House says that they're going to pay for it with a wide

variety of new taxes, bumping up the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%, global minimum tax

paid from 13% to 21%, going after fossil fuels and in tax breaks for fossil fuel companies

and raising taxes on the wealthy in a variety of ways. My first question actually goes to

you, Sarah, since you addressed the polling on some of this in this week's sweep. This

is something, at least at the beginning, seems unlikely to get much Republican support.

The White House doesn't really seem to be looking for much Republican support. They're

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