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So it didn't happen with COVID relief, but President Biden says he really, really wants to go bipartisan on his next to do.

Infrastructure Week.

Okay, maybe not Infrastructure Week, but yeah, infrastructure. So,

now that COVID-Aid has finally made its way to Biden's desk, and he's expected to sign that tomorrow,

has the president's next bid for bipartisanship already sailed? Playbook co-author Rachel Bade

breaks it down for us. At this early stage, there's every indication that the

GOP is actually less likely to cooperate on this bill than with pandemic relief. And here's why.

Number one, the cost. Biden campaigned on a $2 trillion infrastructure climate plan, but already

there's talk among some Democrats about going as high as $4 trillion. The bigger the number goes,

the harder it's going to be to garner GOP support,

especially because Congress just spent $1.9 trillion on a pandemic relief bill.

Zero Republicans supporting that.

Also consider this.

Only three House Republicans supported Democrats' $1.5 trillion version of a very similar

proposal last year, which paired transportation and climate.

Back then, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called this a, quote, multi-thousand-page cousin of the

Green New Deal masquerading as a highway bill. We're told that exact same bill is probably going to be

the starting point in the House for this new infrastructure package. And then, that number is only

going to go higher from there. Second reason to be skeptical. The scope. With the Senate filibuster

clogging up the rest of Democrats' agenda for basically the rest of the year, progressives

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