Opinion | The Risk Democrats Need to Take
Ezra Klein's column argues that the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 — a bipartisan permitting overhaul by Senators Heinrich, Whitehouse, Lee, and Capito — would make it faster and simpler to build energy, housing, and transit infrastructure, and calls it a risk worth taking. He urges Democrats, who ran on affordability and an all-of-the-above energy strategy, to pass it, saying the single most important climate policy is winning the power to build.
