Blue State Blues: Republicans Should Demand Border Wall in Any Infrastructure Deal

The Biden White House is celebrating the fact that a bipartisan “infrastructure deal” passed the first procedural hurdle in the Senate.

Biden and the Republicans who shaped the deal are crowing about what it is in it — though they had yet to provide the text of the bill they are debating and voting on — but what is more interesting is what is likely to be excluded from it: a border wall, the Keystone XL pipeline, water reservoirs, existing nuclear power plants, and the expansion of safe fracking.

Republicans who sign onto this bill — less than 10% of which will fund “roads and bridges,” by the administration’s own admission — are opening the door for Democrats to ram through spending plans that have nothing to do with infrastructure.

They are also approving the Biden administration’s decision to shut down existing parts of our nation’s infrastructure for purely ideological reasons, simply to appease radical environmental activists and amnesty activists.