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...
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 ...
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.
“For me, investment in our physical and human infrastructure (are) inextricably intertwined. Both make us better off and stronger,” Biden said. AndHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosisaid Thursday that the House won’t take up the bipartisan bill until the Senate passes the larger, more sweeping inf...
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...
“There ain’t no infrastructure bill without the reconciliation bill,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly said on a phone call with House members on Thursday morning. “All parties understand, we won’t get enough votes to pass either unless we have enough votes to pass both,” Senate Majority...
Bill Pugliano/Getty Images Biden’s plan allocates $111 billion to rebuild the country’s water infrastructure. It would replace all of the nation’s lead pipes and service lines in order to improve the health of American children and communities of color. The White House says replacing the ...
The bipartisaninfrastructure bill that President Joe Biden signedinto law Monday marks a milestone in his effort to reorient Democratic economic policy away from the strategy of his party’s past two presidents. Thesweeping infrastructure plan– which funds some $550 billion in new spending on roads...