But some Biden officials hope that splitting the two pieces of legislation could open up a path for the the infrastructure portion to clear the threshold established by the inevitable Republican filibuster, which, at the moment, creates a 60-vote standard for the legislation to pass. Eternal infr...
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. Som...
Biden has tapped former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu as a senior White House adviser to coordinate the implementation of the infrastructure bill. The bill includes 550 billion dollars in new spending on infrastructure projects, such as roads, bridges, passenger rails, drinking water and waste w...
U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday signed into law a bipartisan 1-trillion-U.S.-dollar infrastructure bill after months of delay amid Democratic infighting over a social spending package.
Last year’s infrastructure bill gets remarkably little media attention; only about a quarter of voters even know that it passed. But we should remember that Barack Obama wanted to invest in infrastructure but couldn’t; Donald Trump promised to do it but didn’t (and “It’s infrastructure ...
With voters right now broadly in support of raising taxes on the wealthy to fund infrastructure improvements, the Biden administration is hoping that GOP opposition to the bill is limited to Capitol Hill. “We know it has bipartisan support in the country,” Klain said Thursd...
economic ambrosia. So, it's not surprising that nearly every president since the Great Depression has argued for an unprecedented infrastructure bill when faced with economic collapse. A large portion of the public on both sides of the aisle has been trained to think these programs will save us...
Biden’s four signature laws provided $1.1 trillion in direct federal spending, largely for climate and infrastructure — a potentially transformative amount of money if allowed to reach fruition. In comparison, FDR’s New Dealcost $793 billion in 2021 dollars, according to an estimate published ...
The visit presented Biden with another chance to needle Trump on something he couldn’t get done while in office: passing an infrastructure bill. “On my watch, instead of infrastructure week, America is having an infrastructure decade,” Biden said, mocking Trump with a line he’s repeated ...
The infrastructure plan, for instance, requires the vast majority of projects to pay “prevailing wages” based on an average of the pay scale for local construction work. It also includes stringent provisions requiring that in all federal infrastructure projects – not just the new ones funded i...