Biden Pitches $1.85 Trillion Framework to Ease Passage of Parallel Infrastructure Bill - WSJ

“No one got everything they wanted, including me, but that’s what compromise is,” he said.

Not really a compromise when you’re negotiating against yourself.

The plan includes a one-year extension of the expanded child tax credit through 2022, plus a provision making that break permanently available to low-income families that don’t pay income taxes.

A poverty trap if there ever was one. Welfare transfer payments totally unlinked from a family’s best path out of poverty: work.