One person who deserves blame for Biden’s stalled agenda is Joe Biden

When Biden first announced his infrastructure bill, it seemed to me that he had learned an important lesson. Have a popular top line and attach a number of other components and you improve the odds of passage. It’s easy to describe: This is infrastructure. Yes, his definition of “infrastructure” was again expansive, looping in things that aren’t usually associated with infrastructure, such as promoting clean energy. But this, too, was defensible, given the ways in which climate change will affect (and, this summer, was affecting) the country’s transit systems.