Gridlock ‘R’ Us. And while President Biden has yet to eliminate the choke points (Manchin, Sinema) blocking the flow of crucial legislation on Capitol Hill, he did manage to bull through another choke point yesterday: the Port of Los Angeles, through which, along with its adjacent Port of Long Beach, roughly 40 percent of all America’s imports flow. He brokered a deal with Local 13 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in which its members agreed to work 24/7 to clear up the backlog of the many thousands of containers now sitting at the port.
Just goes to show that it’s easier to reach a deal with one of America’s leftmost unions than it is with a couple of nominally Democratic and deeply narcissistic senators.
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