Today, we're going to talk about their finally being some movement with Joe Manchin and the

For the People Act.

I interview the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Marsha Fudge, about the

infrastructure package and when the White House would finally consider passing it without

Republican support, and I chat with the founder of StrikePak Rachel Bittikoffer about a new

way for Democrats to finally go on offense against Republicans.

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

Okay, so we finally finally have some movement on the For the People Act after its prospects

seemed all but dead after Joe Manchin released an op-ed last week announcing his opposition

to it.

Manchin's now come out with a list of policy demands as far as the election legislation

goes, basically outlining what provisions he supports and what provisions he opposes,

meaning that some iteration of the For the People Act is still possible even if it's

a pared-down version.

But the big news here is which provisions he supports, including first and foremost,

mandating independent congressional redistricting and banning partisan gerrymandering.

And considering gerrymandering is the single most destructive problem we face today as far

as anti-democratic measures go, the fact that Manchin supports banning partisan gerrymanders

is huge.

Like, as it stands, we're basically sitting ducks while we wait for every Republican-led

legislature to gerrymandor democratic districts out of existence, which would basically ensure

they'd win the House in 2022.

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