* “Some worry that these (infrastructure-package) taxes will dampen the still-fragile recovery. To the contrary, such investments, accompanied by well-designed taxes, could unleash a period of growth that we have not seen for a long time.” That was Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist and former chief economist of the World Bank.
* Mexico has so far received 2.7 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from the U.S. Its foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, is coming to Washington to seek more help. Expect that he will get it—as well as a quid pro quo request for more border cooperation.
* “You cannot work in the trenches.”–West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, the de facto president of the 50-50 Senate, on the need for bipartisanship.