With nods to FDR, JFK and LBJ, Biden goes big on infrastructure plan Alexander Nazaryan
President Biden traveled to Pittsburgh on Wednesday to introduce a $2.25 trillion infrastructure plan that, in both scope and cost, amounts to the most ambitious attempt by the federal government to refashion the nation’s economy and social fabric since at least Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society program of the 1960s.
As with many of his recent proposals, Biden framed the infrastructure plan as one of a superpower seeking to regain its footing, arguing that the investments the White House has outlined $115 billion to repair roadways, $100 billion for high-speed internet and many other modernizing initiatives would “put us in a position to win the global competition with China in the upcoming years.”
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President Biden Introduces Plan For $111B In Water Infrastructure Investment
The US Water Alliance has advocated for increased investment in water infrastructure since 2015 through our Value of Water Campaign. Water is essential to everything we do, to every community, business, and home in the United States.
Today President Biden released an ambitious infrastructure plan, the American Jobs Plan” that included an unprecedented and historic $111B investment in water infrastructure. It is heartening to see water be prominently featured in the plan after years of water infrastructure being out of sight and out of mind. We commend today’s commitment to water infrastructure as a reflection and recognition of political will to take action to begin to close the water infrastructure investment gap.
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It is, at long last, Infrastructure Week in Washington. It likely will be for months to come, too.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday formally unveiled a $2-trillion infrastructure proposal during an afternoon speech that kicked off what is expected to be a prolonged sales pitch for the sweeping package. “It’s not a plan that tinkers around the edges,” he said. “It’s a once-in-a-generation investment in America unlike anything we’ve done since we built the interstate highway system and the space race decades ago.”
Editorial: Biden s infrastructure plan replaces a running joke with serious investment
April 1, 2021
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A lane of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge was closed after chunks of concrete fell onto the roadway in 2019.Peter DaSilva / Special to The Chronicle
A presidential promise to rebuild the nation’s roads curdled into a running joke a few years ago when the Trump White House’s self-proclaimed “Infrastructure Week” crumbled under the weight of scandal and futility.
On Wednesday, President Biden unveiled his own plan to spend more than $2 trillion over eight years on public works matching a price tag once floated by his predecessor ushering in a sort of Infrastructure Decade. And it’s no joke.