Before walking me through all the details of the massive jobs plan, President Biden laid out last week,

I asked Slate's Jordan Weissman to do something a little different.

I asked him to take me two decades in the future and tell me what the world around us could look like,

assuming Biden's entire list of goodies made it through Congress.

In 20 years. Okay, let's close our eyes and imagine.

In 20 years from now, you are in your electric vehicle, which you don't have to worry about charging

because there will be charges all over the country.

There will be, you know, at any gas station or a stop, you'll be able to charge your car.

And you are riding to work on a highway that is

actually fixed. You don't have to worry about traffic congestion so much because our highways have

been fixed up and modernized and bridges have been repaired. So you don't have orange cones

everywhere holding up the morning commute. You don't longer have to worry about whether or not your kids are getting poisoned by your

tap water because we've taken out and replaced all the lead pipes, which is good.

Okay, this vision is making me realize what a hellscape we currently live in.

Right.

Some people have called Biden's American Jobs Plan an infrastructure bill, and it does fund roads and bridges, the electrical grid and water pipes.

But in a few weeks, the second half of this plan is going to be released, the American Families Plan.

And together, the ideas inside these plans aim to redefine what infrastructure is. They're looking to bolster human infrastructure,

along with everything else. There's something else I noticed about Biden's bills here.

They use the word America a lot. You've got the American

jobs plan. In a few weeks, we're going to have the American families plan. It's a whole

lot of America. Is that intentional? Yeah. I assume so. I mean, like, why not just put America

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