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Slate's Jordan Weissman,

he honestly just didn't think there was going to be

bipartisan infrastructure legislation in Washington.

I went off on a vacation.

And the last thing I tweeted was I just

hope that by the time I'm back,

they've given up this pointless kabuki

and moved on to passing a partisan bill.

So I'm putting this on the record that I was a doubt.

Jordan had good reason to be doubtful.

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