Biden talks up ‘big and bold’ $2.25-trillion infrastructure plan
Republicans are already laughing off the plan over its corporate tax hikes, while some Democrats say the bill needs to be bigger
01 April 2021 - 11:48
Washington — President Joe Biden laid out what he called a “bold” plan to rebuild US infrastructure, but now needs an equally ambitious effort to wrangle it through Congress in the face of Republican opposition and criticism from within his Democrat Party.
Biden, in a speech on Wednesday in Pittsburgh, invoked the great public investments of the past — the transcontinental railroad, the interstate highway system and the space programme — to sell his idea to spend $2.25-trillion over eight years on a menu of projects, from bolstering the electrical grid to upgrading childcare facilities...
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