Planes, trains and bad bridges

Planet Money

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🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill has passed Congress, but what exactly is in it? Today, the important, surprising, delightful line items. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:06.8	We love infrastructure here on Planet Money because, you know, roads, bridges, shipping
0:13.4	channels.
0:14.4	This stuff is the circulatory system of the economy.
0:17.8	And so, of course, when the infrastructure bill passed on Friday night, we were like,
0:22.5	okay, let's see what actually made it into this thing.
0:26.5	And that is when we were also like, uh-oh, it's a thousand and thirty-nine pages long.
0:32.0	Hi.
0:33.0	Kelsey.
0:34.0	Hello.
0:35.0	Did you read this bill?
0:36.0	It did.
0:37.0	Thank God.
0:38.0	Our friend Kelsey Snell is NPR's congressional correspondent.
0:44.8	And lucky for us, she had already started reading this bill months ago.
0:49.5	This is not your first rodeo here.
0:51.1	Do you have to bribe yourself to do this?
0:53.9	Do you have to sit down with some delicious chocolate or wine or like, what's-
0:58.2	Well, I should say that I've been covering taxes and budget for most of my career.
1:02.7	Yeah.
1:03.7	So, this is actually easier than reading the tax code.
1:05.0	Let's put it that way.
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