From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Tim Desher, and this is Heritage Explains.

Another thing they're looking to do is to spend trillions of dollars on quote-unquote infrastructure.

Again, supposedly to juice the economy, but in reality mostly going to benefit a handful

of left-leaning constituencies.

And you're left with two bad options.

Either they just put this on the national credit card, which is already overloaded,

or as Senator Manchin has been saying, what he'd like to do is get rid of all the 2017 tax cuts

and use that to pay for more federal spending.

That definitely would not help choose the economy.

That's David Ditch on a prior episode of Heritage Explains that focused on the so-called COVID

relief package and how it hardly spent money on COVID relief.

He was concerned that passing a law like this would inspire leftists to use the same

strategy on things like infrastructure in the future.

Well, just over a month later, he was proven right.

Music He was proven right. President Biden and his cohorts in the Democrat Party

are now pushing for a, quote-unquote, infrastructure spending bill.

Here's President Biden introducing his new plan.

I'm proposing a plan for the nation that rewards work, not just rewards well. It builds a fair economy that gives everybody a chance to succeed and it's going to create the strongest,

most resilient, innovative economy in the world.

It's not a plan that tinkers around the edges.

It's a once-in-a-generation investment in America.

Unlike anything we've seen or done since we built the interstate highway system

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