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Showing Original Post only (View all)Biden's Infrastructure Plan To Be The Biggest Since The New Deal [View all]
https://www.politicususa.com/2021/03/30/biden-infrastructure-biggest-new-deal.htmlPosted on Tue, Mar 30th, 2021 by Jason Easley
Bidens Infrastructure Plan To Be The Biggest Since The New Deal
President Biden is expected to propose a $2 trillion infrastructure plan that would be the biggest since The New Deal
The Washington Post reported:
Biden is expected on Wednesday to unveil a more than $2 trillion package focused primarily on physical infrastructure such as roads and bridges; major investments in housing, clean energy, and manufacturing; and a major investment in home-based care for the disabled and elderly, among other measures, according to two people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to reveal details of the internal discussions.
Then, the White House will unveil a second plan, in several weeks, that includes an expansion in health care insurance coverage; an extension of the expanded child tax benefit; and paid family and medical leave, among other efforts aimed at families, the officials said. White House officials have not explained whether they will seek to have both efforts pass at the same time, or try to get Congress to approve one first. The combined price-tag of the plans could top $4 trillion.
A Brookings Institute analysis found that it would take $4 trillion in spending to hit New Deal levels of federal outlays on infrastructure.
On the rare occasions in previous decades when Congress could agree on an infrastructure bill, the pricetag has usually been in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Biden and the Democrats are proposing the sort of spending on the nations critical infrastructure that the United States hasnt witnessed in decades.
President Biden and Democrats in the House and Senate are putting together a transformative government that is dealing with big problems, and this sort of spending will improve the lives and communities of people for decades to come.
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Biden's Infrastructure Plan To Be The Biggest Since The New Deal [View all]
babylonsister
Mar 2021
OP
We need somebody pulling from the left to balance out the idiots on the right!
lagomorph777
Mar 2021
#9
I disagree... I think we can get quite a few Rs with some big projects located in key GOP states.
honest.abe
Mar 2021
#18
You think any of them give a shit about their constituents? They act against them ALL THE TIME.
lagomorph777
Mar 2021
#19
I suppose by that you mean shove cookies down their gullets until they cant physically say 'no'.
Volaris
Mar 2021
#32
Its not an intelligent position in my opinion regardless of how progressive she seems to be.
honest.abe
Mar 2021
#25
It's neither a position nor an attack. It's a progressive opinion. An opinion. That's it.
ancianita
Mar 2021
#26
President Biden gave an in-depth speech on many of the details this afternoon.
George II
Mar 2021
#31
Except the New Deal jobs programs' impact was over 2-4 years, not 10 like Biden's
Fiendish Thingy
Mar 2021
#6
What people don't talk about is those infrastructure jobs are good paying jobs.
redstatebluegirl
Mar 2021
#8