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

French, and this week, defined by excellence Chris Steyerwalt, contributor to the dispatch

at AEI. You may know him from again, just his general excellence. We've got plenty to

talk about today. We'll start with supply chain issues, infrastructure bill fallout.

What we think we know about 2022 midterms and end with the latest in the steel dossier,

a term we haven't heard now in a little while, I think.

Steve Wright and David supply chain issues coming to you. Well, first, Sarah, I want to

be known for like generalized excellence like Chris. Whatever she took away my editor title,

so you know, she gave it that she'd take it away. Alright, well, I'll just take generalized

excellence over editor any day. But, uh, so Chris, because of your excellence, I'm going

to start with you about supply chains. Uh, this is one of those issues that you feel

like as far as it's important, you don't even have to preface it with anything. You don't

have to begin with anything because this is one of these universal experiences that people

are going through right now, where in unpredictable areas, sometimes in areas that are really

important to them, they just literally cannot get the goods that they want. They just

can't get them. It's incredibly frustrating to people. You've got the holidays coming

up and there's no real assurance that people are going to be able to enjoy the holidays

the way they traditionally have. And any dive into it demonstrates that it's almost

impossibly complicated that a bottleneck here has ramifications, five steps down the line

and then just when that is eased up, another bottleneck happens and another one and another

one. If you're Joe Biden, a, from a political standpoint, is this job one and b, can he

really fix it? I read with interest about how the brownouts in China intended to help

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