{"id":946183,"date":"2021-10-31T16:43:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T20:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=946183"},"modified":"2021-10-31T16:43:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T20:43:49","slug":"energy-secretary-blows-off-bidens-failure-to-pass-infrastructure-claims-hes-uniting-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/energy-secretary-blows-off-bidens-failure-to-pass-infrastructure-claims-hes-uniting-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Secretary Blows Off Biden\u2019s Failure To Pass Infrastructure, Claims He\u2019s Uniting Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fenergy-secretary-blows-off-bidens-failure-to-pass-infrastructure-claims-hes-uniting-democrats%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=946183&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm dismissed President Joe Biden\u2019s failure to pass the infrastructure and accompanying spending bills prior to his trip overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Granholm joined NBC\u2019s Chuck Todd on Sunday\u2019s broadcast of \u201cMeet the Press\u201d where she argued that despite the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/27\/nancy-pelosi-delays-critical-infrastructure-vote-bills-fate-jeopardy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Democrats<\/a> still appeared to be struggling to reach a deal within their own party, the negotiations proved that Biden was able to unite them.<strong> <a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/03\/meghan-mccain-energy-secretary-jennifer-granholm-biden-miners-learn-to-code\/\">(RELATED: \u2018A Little Tone Deaf\u2019: Meghan McCain Presses Energy Secretary Over Biden Telling Miners \u2018Learn To Code\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Todd began the interview by asking <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/27\/energy-department-jennifer-granholm-fossil-fuel-jobs-sacrificed-renewable-climate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Granholm<\/a> to weigh in on the Capitol Hill drama surrounding the president\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/28\/pelosi-democrats-embarrass-biden-voting-down-infrastructure-gone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Build Back Better agenda<\/a>. He noted that yet another self-imposed deadline \u2013 Oct. 31 \u2013 looked poised to come and go without Democrats agreeing on a deal that would get either bill passed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere we are. The second time in a month we\u2019ve gone through this drama on Capitol Hill,\u201d Todd began. \u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened is that the progressives came out unanimously supporting what was in the framework. They just had to see it. They had to look at the language which was released on Friday,\u201d Granholm replied, arguing that even without a deal in place, Biden could go to Glasgow with the confidence that he had \u201c100% unanimity in the Democratic Caucus in the House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is really bringing people together over this agenda,\u201d Granholm continued, claiming that it was proof of progress that Democrats were arguing about when to vote rather than what was in the bills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to put up something. Abigail Spanberger, she\u2019s a member of Congress in a swing district in Virginia \u2026 She said, \u2018Because people chose to be obstructionists, we\u2019re not delivering these things to my state and the rest of the country. I guess we\u2019ll just wait, because apparently failing roads and bridges can just wait in the minds of some people,&#8217;\u201d Todd said.<\/p>\n<p>Granholm pushed back, saying that she believed Spanberger had made that statement before some of the far left holdouts in the House had come around. She then pivoted to explain some of the provisions that were in the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, this is a case where I\u2019ve asked this, where the political eye is bigger than the political stomach when you guys proposed what you did, because this is a case where you\u2019ve overpromised and underdelivered,\u201d Todd pressed, arguing that for many people, the problem was what was being left out of the bill. Granholm continued to outline more of what the bill was designed to accomplish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re doing a terrific job of selling what\u2019s in it. The problem is there\u2019s a whole bunch of people disappointed in what\u2019s not in it,\u201d Todd objected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t get everything you ask for all the time,\u201d Granholm said, noting that compromise was part of the process. \u201cYou are not so unrealistic to think the president is going to get everything he wants.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm dismissed President Joe Biden\u2019s failure to pass the infrastructure and accompanying spending bills prior to his trip overseas.Granholm joined NBC\u2019s Chuck Todd on Sunday\u2019s broadcast of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}