Two decades of subverting the legislative process and it's all but inevitable to advance muti-trillion-dollar spending paloozas without knowing what's in them.
Fox Business (7/28/21) reports: "The White House and a bipartisan group of lawmakers reached an agreement on a $550 billion infrastructure spending bill Wednesday...The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal will invest $110 billion in new funding for roads, bridges and major projects, and reauthorize the surface transportation program for the next five years. The bill includes a total of $40 billion for bridge repair, replacement and rehabilitation, the single largest dedicated bridge investment since the construction of the interstate highway system. Meanwhile, $17.5 billion will be allocated towards major projects that are too large or complex for traditional funding programs...The deal includes the largest investment in passenger rail since the creation of Amtrak, with $66 billion to eliminate Amtrak's maintenance backlog, modernize the Northeast Corridor, and bring world-class rail service to areas outside the northeast and mid-Atlantic...The agreement will allocate $7.5 billion to build out the first-ever national network of EV chargers, with funding for the deployment of EV chargers along highway corridors to help rural, disadvantaged, and hard-to-reach communities with travel. It will also invest $2.5 billion in zero-emission buses, $2.5 billion in low-emission buses, and $2.5 billion for ferries...Roughly $21 billion will be allocated towards environmental remediation to address pollution, create good-paying union jobs in hard-hit energy communities, and advance economic and environmental justice. Environmental remediation measures include cleaning up superfund and brownfield sites, reclaiming abandoned mine land and capping orphaned gas wells."
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"Americans wouldn’t be worse off if we priced carbon; they could benefit from bigger paychecks, a stronger economy and healthier environment."
–Bob Inglis,
Former Republican
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