Posted on 11/06/2021 10:36:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
After Friday night's 11th-hour vote in the House resulted in the passage of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill - thanks to 13 uniparty Republicans who joined the Congressional Black Caucus in short-sheeting House Progressives - the Wall Street Journal and Forbes have published refreshers of what what America is supposedly getting out of the largest investment in infrastructure in more than a decade.
From 10,000 feet, investments span refurbishing aging roads, bridges and ports, replacing lead pipes, upgrading and hardening the nation's power grid, and of course - a healthy investment in 'infrastructure' to battle the ever-looming man-made climate change disaster that we're told will turn coastal cities into a modern Atlantis.
To help pay for the roughly $550 billion in new spending (nearly half is previously approved funding), more than $200 billion in unused coronavirus relief funds will be repurposed, along with $50 billion from a Trump-era rule on Medicare rebates, and another $50 billion from various states' unused unemployment insurance supplemental funds. Where the rest will come from? Tax hikes and IRS colonoscopies are slated to offset the upcoming social spending bill, assuming Democrats are able to slip both into the reconciliation bill that somehow passes muster for moderate Democrat Senators Joe Manchin (WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (AZ).
In truth, it isn't paid for at all.
Anyhow, drilling down - in addition to including controversial cryptocurrency tax reporting requirements, the infrastructure bill will invest in the following via Forbes:
Roads and bridges: Headlining the 2,702-page bill's spending, roughly $110 billion of new funds would go toward improving the nation's roads and bridges, and investments in other major transportation programs.
Public transit: The package also includes the largest-ever federal investment in public transit, allotting $39 billion to modernize systems, improve access for the elderly and people with disabilities, and repair more than 24,000 buses, 5,000 rail cars and thousands of miles of train tracks.
Amtrak: The legislation marks the largest investment in passenger rail since the creation of Amtrak 50 years ago, with $66 billion earmarked for high-speed rail, safety improvements, Amtrak grants and to modernize the rail route connecting Washington, D.C., to Boston.
Broadband internet: Tacking on to billions authorized by last year's American Rescue Plan, the infrastructure bill includes $65 billion to bolster the country's broadband infrastructure and help ensure every American has access to high-speed internet, with one in four households expected to be eligible for a $30-per-month subsidy to pay for internet.
Electric grid: Though many clean-energy measures were cut from the bill to satisfy spending-weary lawmakers, a $65 billion investment will help upgrade the nation's electricity grid, with thousands of miles of new transmission lines and funds for environmentally friendly smart-grid technology.
Electric cars, buses and ferries: In addition to $7.5 billion for the nation's first network of electric-vehicle chargers along highway corridors, lawmakers have shored up $5 billion for zero-emission buses (including thousands of electric school buses) and $2.5 billion for ferries.
Clean drinking water: Following high-profile water-supply crises plaguing cities like Flint, Michigan, the legislation includes a provision for $55 billion to replace all the nation's lead pipes and service lines, representing the largest investment in clean drinking water ever.
Great rivers and lakes: Among the bill's $48 billion for water infrastructure improvements, about $1 billion is slated to go toward the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, a sweeping clean-up measure targeting toxic hot spots—or areas of heavy industrial pollution—around the Great Lakes region.
Airports: More than $25 billion has been allocated to help modernize America's airports—funds the Airports Council International says will help tackle more than $115 billion worth of project backlogs.
Road safety: The deal invests $11 billion in transportation safety programs, including a new program to help states and localities reduce crashes and fatalities in their communities, particularly among cyclists and pedestrians.
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And now, the crazy stuff:
Republicans just helped Democrats get $500 million for “Transportation Resilience and Adaptation Centers of Excellence” https://t.co/sp8KOQ21O6 — Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) November 6, 2021
Continued via @Oilfield_Rando, with each tweet linking to relevant portion of the bill:
After $70 billion in covid relief, Republicans just helped Democrats give universities another $400 million https://t.co/dT6GblCOpJ — Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) November 6, 2021
Republicans just forced states to provide an annual list of “disadvantaged businesses” owned by women and minorities, verified by in person inspectionshttps://t.co/0cpxmDahcb — Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) November 6, 2021
Republicans just gave Democrats $75 million for a study on how to enact income-based road usage fees https://t.co/inRo035ZPR — Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) November 6, 2021
Republicans just gave $2.1 billion to North Dakota’s carbon dioxide pipelines, a payout for @SenKevinCramer. Lining each other’s pockets. https://t.co/gCjKSmYtVS — Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) November 6, 2021
The bipartisan infrastructure bill requires states to consider measures to promote electric vehicles.
They’re so great that your tax dollars must be used to convince you to buy them. https://t.co/XGVggc7zD8 — Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) November 6, 2021
And more (click into thread):
Brandon Build Back China bill includes $5B for zero-emission & low-emission buses.
Lobbyists hired by Ponzi Chinese EV maker BYD at this minute are fighting tooth and nail to get a piece of the fund :https://t.co/xLkY6fBabh pic.twitter.com/dKet6pEdKd — BenjaminT /Boycott 2022 Genocide Olympics (@BenjaminT0001) November 6, 2021
Meanwhile.. lobbyist hired by China are swarming like locusts :https://t.co/TaQR2H2Tvh
— BenjaminT /Boycott 2022 Genocide Olympics (@BenjaminT0001) November 6, 2021
Funny how they were so quick to have a suit ready to go before those who live in the US have heard about the issue.
Funny how they were so quick to have a suit ready to go before those who live in the US have heard about the issue.
” a $30-per-month subsidy to pay for internet.”
GRRR! Now I have to pay for everyone else’s internet??!!
6 AOC crazies voted against it. Peel off 6 of our(yea) turncoats and we would have 218 against. McCarthy can’t keep his party together and $1.2 trillion is acceptable?
Many of our turncoats will be gone and 6-8 of our senators will be gone also. Problem ones are Grassley, Lisa, Hoeven, Crapo. They’re up next year. We have no control over them running again but those states have to step up and take the gamble. I’ll stand by Collins-best we can get.
I am all for the upgrade of Amtrak in the north east as long as the trains run one way from DC directly into Boston Harbor.
The Democrat Party motto: “Death to America”
Would you have spent a trillion dollars? Nope. If you were to spend a dollar per second every second of the year, it would take you over 31 thousand years to spend a trillion dollars.
Think about that.
Pork, and more pork. We need more people like the truck driver, and the Lt. Gov from VA to run in 2022.The rhino dead wood MUST BE THROWN OUT!
If Nancy Pelosi had needed the votes of any members of “the squad”, they would have voted for the bill. What the turncoat Republicans did is just to give cover to the Dems. It is disgusting.
Hopefully the France-ification bill is now DOA. Not holding my breath.
Just keep voting for the R
No matter how bad they are
Rah Rah Romney
Hail Hail Haley
Bump
Check out the unfunded liabilities near the bottom right. $159,270,022,087,024.00 (Think about $159 Trillion) It's no wonder they need a Great Reset. There's no way to dig out of this debt. Unless of course they tap into(steal) the people's Assets.
free-dame i believe you’re right.
Here’s the BEST PART: Even with 95% of the Republicans voting against this, the Democrats have convinced the Republicans that, if not for the Republicans, this would have never passed.
Once again, Nancy OUTSMARTS the Deplorables and gets them to eat their own people!!!
The way inflation is going, in a few years a dollar will be equivalent to what a penny is worth now.
Eventually you will need a million dollars to buy a cup of coffee.
No, we just need to elect MAGA in 2022. 6 Senate Rhinos are retiring.
“No, we just need to elect MAGA in 2022. 6 Senate Rhinos are retiring.”
ABSOLUTELY!
any funding for more reservoirs in the West?
I bet they pump more dough into the useless go nowhere “HigH-Speed” Railjob out here.
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