Today, we're going to talk about the Biden administration's newly released American

Jobs Plan and what's in it.

And I interviewed Joe Biden's top economic advisor, the director of the National Economic

Council, Brian Deese.

When we talk about this new package, how to stop Republicans from inevitably trying to

take credit for it, calls from progressives who say it needs to be bigger and whether

we might actually see high-speed rail become a reality.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen and you're listening to No Lie.

So for a god-day dubbed sleepy Joe, I'm not sure I've seen a president move so fast.

After passing the American Rescue Plan, what, 46 days into his presidency, Biden's now

unveiled the American Jobs Plan.

So the American Jobs Plan is a lot.

Brian Deese gives a really good summary in the interview coming up, but here's my attempt

at conveying just some of what's included in the package.

It'll fix roads, bridges, airports, mass transit, deliver clean drinking water, renew

the electric grid, plug oil and gas wells and clean up abandoned mines, create a national

network of electric vehicle chargers, get high-speed broadband to 100% of Americans, build

or retrofit 2 million homes and buildings, modernize our schools, upgrade veterans' hospitals

and federal buildings, create jobs and raise wages and benefits for home care workers, revitalize

manufacturing, invest in R&D, strengthen unions and prepare Americans for jobs of the future.

Not a bad place to start as we kick off these negotiations.

But Republicans have already begun towing the party line and coming out against infrastructure

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