Posted on 04/01/2021 7:52:24 AM PDT by Red Badger
The White House released a fact sheet of President Joe Biden’s proposed $2.5 trillion infrastructure bill on Wednesday, detailing his multi-billion-dollar spending priorities.
Here are some of the top 45 spending proposals:
$400 billion toward expanding access to quality, affordable home- or community-based care for aging relatives and people with disabilities.
$213 billion to produce, preserve, and retrofit more than two million affordable and sustainable places to live.
$174 billion to win the electric vehicle market.
$115 billion to modernize the bridges, highways, roads, and main streets that are in most critical need of repair.
$111 billion to replace 100 percent of the nation’s lead pipes and service lines.
$100 billion to upgrade and build new public schools
$100 billion to build high-speed broadband infrastructure to reach 100 percent coverage.
$100 billion to build a more resilient electric transmission system.
$85 billion to modernize existing transit and help agencies expand their systems to meet rider demand.
$80 billion to address Amtrak’s repair backlog; modernize the high traffic Northeast Corridor; improve existing corridors and connect new city pairs.
$56 billion in grants and low-cost flexible loans to states, Tribes, territories, and disadvantaged communities across the country.
$50 billion in dedicated investments to improve infrastructure resilience.
$50 billion in the National Science Foundation (NSF), creating a technology directorate that will collaborate with and build on existing programs across the government.
$50 billion to create a new office at the Department of Commerce dedicated to monitoring domestic industrial capacity
$50 billion in semiconductor manufacturing and research
$48 billion in American workforce development infrastructure and worker protection.
$46 billion investment in federal buying power,
$45 billion in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Drinking Water State Revolving Fund and in Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN) grants.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
“$85 billion to modernize existing transit and help agencies expand their systems to meet rider demand.”
There is no great demand for public transit. Public transit is highly subsidized. Average bus ride is about $4-5 dollars per rider and the short buses for the special needs folks can be as his $12-15.
So next time some tells you they ride the bus all over town for 50 cents, tell them that theirs and our tax dollars are paying the true bill to maintain the fleet of all of those virtually empty buses.
I read that in my Joe Namath internal voice
I read that in my Joe Namath internal voice
"Disability" replaced to old welfare in much of the black community - more money and no pesky social workers...
AKA “Crazy Checks”....................
I knew a person who bragged about all 12 members of her family were on disability - and the easiest was was ‘crazy’ because it’s hard to prove a person’s NOT crazy. But according to her it was a scam... and she was the only person out of her 12 family members who really was disabled.
There are people who take advantage of anything - they have no shame.
What a fantastic wish list now we must keep it from Santa.
Hopefully the senate has enough sense to stop it.
They can’t wait to pass it!....................
They can’t wait to pass it!....................
“ $100 billion to build a more resilient electric transmission system.”
Well, now that he’s rescinded Pres. Trump’s ban on Chinese equipment for our electrical grid, this will be quite a bit @ 10% for the Big Guy.
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