Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast. I'm your host Sarah Isger.

Join by Steve Hayes, David French and Jonah Goldberg.

Today we are talking about Biden's stalled legislative agenda, Florida's new tech bill,

The Rise in Crime and the Airspace in Belarus.

Let's dive right in. Take this appointment for the Biden White House. This week they wanted the

leasing reform bill done on Tuesday, the one-year anniversary of George Floyd's death.

They're not particularly close to a compromise on that over specifically qualified immunity,

civil liability for police officers who violate someone's civil rights.

The January 6th Commission Republicans are moving further away from it, not closer and then perhaps

most importantly to the White House, the infrastructure bill. The Biden administration started out asking

for $2.3 trillion Republicans counted with $500 billion. There are more than a trillion dollars.

A part Democrats have said if they can't get Republicans on board in the next week,

they're going to go it alone, which is sort of how you don't end up with any incentive to

compromise. So David, my question to you is, does the Biden administration need Republicans?

Well, I mean, it needs Republicans so long as the Senate parliamentarian Joe Manchin and

Kristen Sinema say they need Republicans, at least as far as you're talking about kind of the

raw power politics of it all. As so long as they say you need them, then you need them.

There's this interesting definition of bipartisanship that the Biden administration has adopted,

which doesn't have much to do with bipartisanship in Congress. It's essentially saying we're going

to pursue legislative initiatives that have bipartisan support in the country. In other words,

there are lots of Republicans in the country who like this. And there's a certain logic to that.

I mean, there's a there's a certain re-election logic to that that you can you can look and you

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