President Joe Biden made clear from his first day in office that social justice issues are at the top of his economic agenda. A “human” infrastructure bill remains on Congress’ to-do list, which includes subsidies for child care, education, paid leave, health care and clean energy programs — in other words, a social safety net.

But to get this partisan, largely unwritten measure passed, Democrats have embraced the budget reconciliation process. Mary C. Curtis speaks first to Norman Ornstein, emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, to unpack the reconciliation process. To discuss the friction within the Democratic Party on this measure and more, Curtis turns to DNC Chair Jaime Harrison on what’s at stake.

Show Notes:

• MLK III: ‘Listen with your ears, hear with your heart’
• ‘This is about whether or not we will have a democracy or an autocracy,’ Clyburn says on voting rights
• ‘The flag would still be flying today’
• The education gap
• ‘The intrinsic value of whiteness’