I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Thursday, April 1st.

So love him for it or hate him for it, President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan unveiled yesterday isn't just

about infrastructure. It's also about climate. It's also about unions. It's also about family.

And it's also about restoring some kind of economic balance after decades of the concentration

of wealth in this country run amok. Here's Biden from his

rollout speech yesterday, just saying it out loud. We all will do better when we all do well.

It's time to build our economy from the bottom up and from the middle out, not the top down.

It hadn't worked very well.

For the economy overall, it hadn't worked.

Because Wall Street didn't build this country.

You, great middle class, built this country.

And unions built the middle class. And it's time. And this time, when we rebuild the

middle class, we're going to bring everybody along. Regardless your background, your color,

your religion, the winner, everybody gets to come along. So today, I'm proposing a plan for the nation

that rewards work, not just rewards wealth. It builds a fair economy that gives everybody a chance

to succeed and can create the strongest, most resilient, innovative economy in the world.

President Biden yesterday.

We've got a couple of more clips to play that I think are also very interesting and even philosophically revealing, and we'll get to those.

And with me now is Politico-Economics correspondent Megan Casella.

Her article is called Biden looks for an infrastructure

win where Obama and Trump failed. Megan, thanks for coming on with us. Welcome to WNYC.

Thank you so much for having me on the show. Your lead line says Biden will try to turn a long-running

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