Posted on 04/05/2021 10:28:33 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - President Joe Biden’s economic agenda includes a $2 trillion infrastructure plan that aims to repair roads, focus on clean energy and create millions of jobs for Americans among other issues.
The proposal, called the American Jobs Plan, faces an uphill battle in Congress as some Republicans are opposed.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Wednesday morning that he was unlikely to support anything “If it’s going to have massive tax increases and trillions more added to the national debt,” according to NBC News.
Although there’s a lot to unpack in Biden’s plan, including money to aging Americans and improving the quality of water, homes and expanding broadband, the proposal would spend more than $100 billion to fix roads and bridges.
The North Carolina Department of Transportation has already laid out its ten-year plan that includes thousands of projects and said they’ll follow Biden’s proposal as it makes its way through Congress.
“We appreciate that President Biden recognizes the great importance of transportation infrastructure in regards to getting people access to jobs, health care and educational opportunities,” NCDOT said in a statement. “That includes not only maintaining what is already here but also expanding the system and welcoming new innovations. We will follow his proposal as it makes its way through Congress.”
Jeff Cabaniss, Division 2 Project Development Engineer, said the projects are not just trying to get people from one place to another safely, but also to help the economy grow.
“By doing that ... we usually are talking about upgrading roads, taking two-lane roads and making them four lanes, taking existing four lanes and turning them into interstates,” Cabaniss said. “So we’ve got a couple of long term big goals, and probably the largest is down the U.S. 70 corridor.”
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PING!
We already pay a gasoline tax designated for road repair. How much is it? How much actually goes for highway repair?? Doesn’t each state also add a gasoline tax on top of the federal tax?
The MSM pimping for Biden’s plan.
Biden doesn’t pay for anything but influence peddling. These peoplewobt see a dime of infrastructure money. Just duh.
I’m lost on this bill regarding the lead pipe replacement. Which one of the politicians is rehabbing a huge old hotel that needs the plumbing paid for by the govt?
I grew up in the way back of nowhere and there aren’t any lead pipes there and haven’t been for 50 years.
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