The Biden administration's first electric vehicle charger, paid for by the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, opened in Ohio on Friday, two years after billions of dollars in funding was allocated to ease a transition to electric vehicles from gas-powered cars. But that transition appears to be stuck in the slow lane.
"On my watch, instead of Infrastructure Week America's having an Infrastructure Decade," Biden said, touting his own infrastructure investments but stumbling over the specifics. "Over a billion three hundred million trillion three hundred million dollars!"
A Los Angeles grand jury issued a nine-count indictment on Thursday, charging first son Hunter Biden with three felony tax offenses and six misdemeanor tax offenses.
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN), the Democrat who has mounted a primary challenge against President Joe Biden, will file challenges against the Democratic National Committee and state parties to get on the ballot in some states.
The Biden administration announced $6 billion in funding this week to two green high-speed railway projects in the West, giving a boost to plans that have been years in the making.