An infrastructure bill to invest in America’s poorest communities introduced in the House last week could be a template for bridging the gap between the extremes of the two parties.
Why it matters: The bill’s co-sponsors are a coalition of members from the Freedom Caucus and Congressional Black Caucus who rarely work together. And it can be a roadmap to expand cooperation to other areas, like pharmaceuticals, telecom, health care and climate change, said the lobbying firm behind the bill.
“This is transferable to a whole host of issues to the extent that the baseline of economic development is there,” said Michael Williams of United by Interest (UBI), a majority-minority-owned bipartisan lobbying firm that’s backing the legislation.