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...
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.
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...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- 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. "Here in Washington, we've heard countless speeches and promises, white...
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...
"I will ask Leader Schumer to schedule both the infrastructure plan and the reconciliation bill for action in the Senate," Biden said Saturday. "I expect both to go to the House, where I will work with Speaker Pelosi on the path forward."...
knowing they’d struggle to win reelection. The fallout for the 13 Republicans who backed the infrastructure bill hasn’t been as widespread, but already two of the nine who voted for the infrastructure bill alonehave attracted notable primary opponents. And it’s poss...
recently calculatedthat over the first five years of implementation the infrastructure plan would create nearly 775,000 jobs annually, while the Build Back Better plan would add about another 2.3 million jobs a year. Hersh also projects that more than 80% of the infrastructure plan’...
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 ...