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Biden Announces $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan That Takes on Climate Change

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News Commentary, News, Politics

4.2 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

President Joe Biden unveiled his $2 trillion infrastructure plan on Wednesday. Called the “American Jobs Plan,” the massive measure would rebuild aging roads, bridges and airports, while addressing climate change and racial inequities. It also includes funds to expand high-speed broadband internet across the country. California is poised to receive the biggest portion of federal funds if passed. Scott Shafer discusses what’s in the plan, how California would benefit and its prospects for passage in Congress with Vox reporter Ella Nilsen and Ethan Elkind, director of the climate program at UC Berkeley.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to forum. I'm Scott Schaefer here today for me and a Kim. I got to give a hat

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tip to the producers for that music. So appropriate leading into this conversation, we're going to be

1:08.7

talking now about the $2 trillion infrastructure plan

1:12.3

announced yesterday by President Joe Biden. Here he is talking a little bit about that proposal.

1:17.8

His vision not seen through the eyes of Wall Street or Washington, but through the eyes of

1:23.3

hardworking people like the people I grew up with. People like Mike and his union family,

1:29.6

union workers, and this carpenter's training center. People like the folks I grew up with in

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Scranton and Claymont, Delaware. People will get up every day, work hard, raise their family,

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pay their taxes, serve their country, and volunteer for their communities,

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and just looking for a little bit of breathing room, just a little bit of light.

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If it's enacted, it'll mean massive infusions of federal money for traditional infrastructure

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projects, everything from filling potholes to updating airports and bridges, as well as billions

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for public transportation, electric vehicles, even affordable housing.

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