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April 1, 2021
White House Daily Briefing
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki held a briefing on news of the day. The press secretary answered a series of questions about President Biden’s proposed infrastructure plan including an increase to the corporate tax rate, allocation of funding for roads and bridges, and possible compromises with Republicans. She also clarified the White House expects Johnson & Johnson to meet vaccine supply deadlines despite recent contamination of 15 million doses.
White House Daily Briefing
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki held a briefing on news of the day. The press secretary answered a series of questions about President Biden’s proposed infrastructure plan including an increase to the corporate tax rate, allocation of funding for roads and bridges, and possible compromises with Republicans. She also clarified the White House expects Johnson & Johnson to meet vaccine supply deadlines despite recent contamination of 15 million doses.
President Joe Biden speaking on an Amtrak train in February 2011.
What Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan means for you
Apr. 2 - President Joe Biden is willing to spend big.
Just the first part of his next sweeping economic package — focused on various types of infrastructure spending — has a price tag of $2 trillion. Taken together with the second part of the package, to be announced in coming weeks, it could result in around $4 trillion of spending.
In his Wednesday announcement of the American Jobs Plan, Biden emphasized the importance of rebuilding not just crumbling roads and bridges, but the middle class as a whole.
"Even before the crisis we're now facing, those at the very top in America were doing very well, which is fine," Biden said. "They were doing great. But everyone else was falling behind."
He added: "We all will do better when we all do well. It's time to build our economy from the bottom up and from the middle out, not the top down."
The package certainly faces a long, rocky road before anything becomes law. But if all of its provisions get passed, here's how the current plan could impact you.
Anyone who commutes — whether by train, bus, or car — could feel the impact of the infrastructure package
Broadly, transportation infrastructure would get a $621 billion investment. The biggest expenditures go towards modernizing roads, bridges, and highways; electric vehicles; public transit; and Amtrak. continue to read
What Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan means for you
Apr. 2 - President Joe Biden is willing to spend big.
Just the first part of his next sweeping economic package — focused on various types of infrastructure spending — has a price tag of $2 trillion. Taken together with the second part of the package, to be announced in coming weeks, it could result in around $4 trillion of spending.
In his Wednesday announcement of the American Jobs Plan, Biden emphasized the importance of rebuilding not just crumbling roads and bridges, but the middle class as a whole.
"Even before the crisis we're now facing, those at the very top in America were doing very well, which is fine," Biden said. "They were doing great. But everyone else was falling behind."
He added: "We all will do better when we all do well. It's time to build our economy from the bottom up and from the middle out, not the top down."
The package certainly faces a long, rocky road before anything becomes law. But if all of its provisions get passed, here's how the current plan could impact you.
Anyone who commutes — whether by train, bus, or car — could feel the impact of the infrastructure package
Broadly, transportation infrastructure would get a $621 billion investment. The biggest expenditures go towards modernizing roads, bridges, and highways; electric vehicles; public transit; and Amtrak. continue to read
US loses focus by inserting anti-China in infrastructure plan: Global Times editorial
Aprl 2 - US President Joe Biden unveiled a roughly $2 trillion American Jobs Plan focused on infrastructure and the climate crisis in a speech in Pittsburgh on Wednesday. To win support, he said that the "once-in-a-generation" investment would "put [the US] in a position to win the global competition with China in the upcoming years," Global Times wrote.
Much of infrastructure in the US has been old. Both Democrats and Republicans are on the same page on this matter. US former president Barack Obama in September 2010 proposed his ambitious plan to renew the US' transportation infrastructure, but failed to achieve it in both of his terms. Neither did Donald Trump. Biden launched the third round of such attempt. His plan contains the greatest details and seems to be the most serious one, Global Times wrote.
However, the Biden administration's infrastructure plan was met with opposition from Republicans when it was announced. Trump slammed the infrastructure plan as a "giveaway to China" in a statement on Wednesday, and said that the proposed tax increases designed to fund the $2 trillion proposal would end up backfiring by sending American jobs overseas. Biden may once again have mired himself down in a situation where everyone agrees that it was the right thing to do, but no one can agree on how to do it or where the money will come from, Global Times wrote. source from
Aprl 2 - US President Joe Biden unveiled a roughly $2 trillion American Jobs Plan focused on infrastructure and the climate crisis in a speech in Pittsburgh on Wednesday. To win support, he said that the "once-in-a-generation" investment would "put [the US] in a position to win the global competition with China in the upcoming years," Global Times wrote.
Much of infrastructure in the US has been old. Both Democrats and Republicans are on the same page on this matter. US former president Barack Obama in September 2010 proposed his ambitious plan to renew the US' transportation infrastructure, but failed to achieve it in both of his terms. Neither did Donald Trump. Biden launched the third round of such attempt. His plan contains the greatest details and seems to be the most serious one, Global Times wrote.
However, the Biden administration's infrastructure plan was met with opposition from Republicans when it was announced. Trump slammed the infrastructure plan as a "giveaway to China" in a statement on Wednesday, and said that the proposed tax increases designed to fund the $2 trillion proposal would end up backfiring by sending American jobs overseas. Biden may once again have mired himself down in a situation where everyone agrees that it was the right thing to do, but no one can agree on how to do it or where the money will come from, Global Times wrote. source from
SOLUTIONS FROM THE LAND: BIDEN PLAN MAKES CLEAN ENERGY, AGRICULTURE PART OF HIS MAJOR CLIMATE INITIATIVE
Apr. 2 - ...SfL applauds President Biden's infrastructure proposal and calls on lawmakers to come together and support provisions that, while reshaping the U.S. economy, would build out the clean energy infrastructure as part of a broader effort to curb climate change. As policy makers move forward on this massive proposal, they are urged to remember the major contributions that U.S. agriculture and rural communities will continue to make in solving the challenges of our time.
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Apr. 2 - ...SfL applauds President Biden's infrastructure proposal and calls on lawmakers to come together and support provisions that, while reshaping the U.S. economy, would build out the clean energy infrastructure as part of a broader effort to curb climate change. As policy makers move forward on this massive proposal, they are urged to remember the major contributions that U.S. agriculture and rural communities will continue to make in solving the challenges of our time.
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