Former Missouri Senator Jim Talent now lends his services to the Bipartisan Policy Center, and joins Marc Cox on a weekly basis.
On the heels of the progress being made in the Senate on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, Talent says he's not sure how he would have accepted the bill if he had still been a Senator.
"I don't know how I would have voted if I'd been there, I get where the people who voted for it are coming from," Talent says. "If this were the only thing that had happened this year, then I think we would be discussing 'Did we get enough of the bill devoted to things that meet real needs?"
Talent is concerned with the cost of the second bill that is progressing that pairs with the initial infrastructure bill.
"The rest of it is a grab-bag of small programs that doesn't fix Social Security, doesn't strengthen Medicare, doesn't make pensions secure for pensioners, doesn't address student loans, and burns the rest of the credit of the United States," says Talent.
