Editorial cartoons for April 4, 2021: Biden infrastructure plan, Covid recriminations
Updated Apr 04, 4:00 AM;
Posted Apr 04, 4:00 AM
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President Joe Biden unveiled a $2 trillion infrastructure plan that would put Americans to work on traditional infrastructure like roads, bridges, airports, railroads, electric car charging stations, water pipes, high-speed broadband and modernizing the electrical grid, and so-called “human infrastructure” like caregiving for the elderly and children, pandemic preparedness and technologies to reduce global warming. Biden said he’d pay for it by raising taxes on corporations.
That is a nonstarter for Republicans. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said his caucus would not support a plan that raises taxes. Thus Biden would need the support of every Democrat in the 50-50 Senate to force passage of the bill using a budget reconciliation maneuver the same way Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill was passed without
Editorial cartoons for April 4, 2021: Biden infrastructure plan, Covid recriminations
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