Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., the top Republican on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, said he'll work with Democrats on infrastructure but that prioritizing climate issues would not receive GOP support. "A transportation bill needs to be a transportation bill, not a Green New...
The Biden administration is preparing to give us a first look at its potential infrastructure bill. The White House has begun to offer details about what the bill — the next major piece of legislation after the American Rescue Plan — that the Biden administration will pursue. And while the ...
"We're done talking about infrastructure weeks. We're now talking about an infrastructure decade." Biden said his administration will start repairing more than 65,000 miles of highways and 1,500 bridges this year. He hailed the strongest growth of the U.S. economy in almost 40 years ...
Jason Furman, the former top economist for then-President Barack Obama who now teaches at Harvard University, is wrenching open a debate about the former administration, writing in a lengthy Foreign Affairs piece that inflation was principally caused by too much government spending and that some of...
Psaki said the attendees “also shared the administration’s view for building sustainable infrastructure that will withstand the impacts of climate change and fuel an American clean-energy revolution." But in response to a question about how much Biden wanted to spend on an infrastructure package,...
In a statement, Toomey that he believes, "Congress and the Biden administration can come together and enact a bipartisan bill that responsibly boosts federal support for our roads, bridges, ports, and airports." But there remain major disagreements over core elements of an infrastructure bill, inc...
The burst of industrial policy that followed (the Chips and Science Act, the bipartisan infrastructure law, the Inflation Reduction Act) appeared equally adroit… His administration’s pugilistic approach to antitrust enforcement was a sensible way to build Biden’s credibility as a champion of the...
On Wednesday, US President Joe Biden unveiled the first part of what he called the "American Jobs Plan" - an infrastructure package worth more than two trillion dollars. Dubbed "a once-in-a-generation investment in America," the proposal will give the government a bigger ...
And believe it or not...so do the Republicans. Well, not all of it. But the GOP and the Trump administration have in the past proposed their own version of infrastructure spending—as much as $1.7 trillion—which would also do much of the same, although with less emphasis on the enviro...
and looming battles over higher taxes to pay for infrastructure, as well. Though the Biden administration is talking about spending huge sums on caregiving as part of its economic proposals, Porter worries that by splitting up the infrastructure plans, a day could come when, "Golly gee, ther...