U.S. President Joe Biden has signed a historic $1 trillion spending bill into law. The legislation aims to tackle much-needed investment in infrastructure, drinking water, and telecommunications. It fulfills a key promise made by Biden during his presidential campaign, but it took the ...
On top of roads, bridges and public transportation, the infrastructure bill provides an additional $65 billion for broadband, $73 billion for power infrastructure and $21 billion for environmental clean-up, which presents revitalization prospects to small businesses in local communities. "Our infrast...
Loading low-carbon energy initiatives into an infrastructure bill will likely be more divisive in Congress than previous Covid stimulus legislation. The last major push to pass climate legislation through the Senate was in 2009, when congressional Democrats failed to pass a carbon-pricing system. Rea...
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,...
The failed so-called stimulus bill. The pork-filled infrastructure bill. The misnamed Inflation Reduction Act. The cronyist subsidies for Big Tech. How much damage has been caused by these pieces of legislation, as well as his other fiscal policies? According to new research from Matt Dickerson...
No single infrastructure bill passed by Congress will contain all of the policies set forth in the Plan. The Biden Administration decided to, in the words of President Biden, “go big.” However, the Plan faces opposition from both Republicans, who object to the cost of the Plan and its ...
Joe Biden's campaign released a plan to put $2 trillion into green infrastructure and energy over four years. The Democrat outlined a more ambitious climate change and job creation platform than he did during the primary as he aims to reduce emissions and create jobs. The Trump campa...
U.S. President Joe Biden signs the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 15, 2021. /Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden has signed his $1-trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law on Monday. ...
President Joe Biden is heading to Wisconsin this week to tout $3.3 billion in funding aimed at addressing inequalities built into the nation’s infrastructure as his campaign seeks to sell voters on a second term. The visit Wednesday is the latest stop in a post-State of the Union battlegroun...
Joe Biden has signed several bills during his presidency. These include a $1.9 COVID-19 relief package and a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. He also signed a climate-and-health spending bill into law. In 2022, he signed gun control legislation requiring extensive background checks and streng...