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 | FRI, JUN 11, 2021 | | | Hello, Infrastructure talks fell apart this week. Then they were reborn. Now a deal might actually be in sight. President Biden headed to Europe for a G-7 summit, where he and other leaders are pushing for a global minimum corporate tax rate. Key Democratic lawmakers are furious that the Trump Justice Department reportedly sought their data from Apple as part of leak probes. And Joe Manchin's quest for bipartisanship in the Senate has led to a vicious partisan fight over his crucial vote. Here's what's happening: - The mighty morphin' infrastructure plan: After months of talks, false starts, apparent progress, shifting price tags and, ultimately, disagreement over several key issues, infrastructure talks between Biden and a GOP group led by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito fell apart. But that wasn't the death of infrastructure. A bipartisan group of senators quickly hammered out an approximately $1 trillion agreement, without tax increases. It still needs a signoff from the White House and party leaders in both houses of Congress. And it looks like progressives aren't too happy with it. Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, for instance, is demanding there must be climate provisions in the bill, or there won't be a deal.
- Manchin on the Hill: One of the key members of the bipartisan Senate group to reach the infrastructure deal is none other than the centrist Democrat from West Virginia, who is under a lot of pressure from both sides of the aisle on a variety of issues. Since last month, groups from the left and right have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on television ads in Manchin's home state to cajole him into siding with them. With so many potential pieces of legislation still up in the air, and Democrats holding the barest majority in the Senate, the fight for Manchin's vote has probably only just begun.
- Toobin back on screen: Legal analyst and author Jeffrey Toobin appeared on CNN for the first time in the eight months since he was fired from The New Yorker for exposing his genitals on a Zoom call with colleagues. The segment, which aired Thursday, spent a lot of time focusing on Toobin's controversy and fall from grace before he returned to his previous job providing legal analysis. His return comes shortly after CNN fired another high-profile contributor, former GOP Sen. Rick Santorum, who made disparaging comments about Native Americans.
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