Senate Parliamentarian Clears Way for Reconciliation on Infrastructure Bill, Schumer Says
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough “advised that a revised budget resolution may contain budget reconciliation instructions,” opening up the possibility of Democrats using that process again in FY 2021 to pass an infrastructure spending package or another measure, said the office…
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of Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Monday. That "allows Democrats additional tools to improve the lives of Americans if Republican obstruction continues," the office said. Democrats began floating the possibility last month of using reconciliation on an infrastructure bill (see 2103160001). New America's Open Technology Institute and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civil Society Studies proposed using "the windfall proceeds of current and anticipated spectrum auctions" to pay for a "Digital Futures Foundation" aimed at investing "in the significant advancements in public-purpose applications and services needed to close the various digital equity gaps for the benefit of all the American people." Some lawmakers are reexamining the possibility of using spectrum auction proceeds to pay for broadband funding in an infrastructure package (see 2104010062). Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said Tuesday he backs an increase in the corporate tax rate to pay for infrastructure.