The Biden administration recently unveiled a package worth more than $2 trillion that should be spent on climate change-related projects in addition to infrastructure projects, and conservatives denounced that Biden’s spending bill is still not transparent enough.
Biden said his, package would invest $2 trillion over this decade. The first part of his two-part plan is a working plan for the U.S., but many parts have no specific details and were added last.
2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan
621 billion for transportation and related budgets.
115 billion to be spent on modernizing bridges, highways, roads, and major streets in need of repair, which also includes green programs such as clean air and carbon emission reduction.
20 billion would be spent on improving road safety.
85 billion to be spent on modernizing existing systems.
80 billion to be spent on Amtrak backlog repairs.
174 billion to be spent on market investments in electric vehicles
25 billion to be spent on airport construction.
17 billion would be spent on domestic rivers, seaports, and land-based ports and ferries
20 billion to be spent on new projects including “improving opportunity, increasing racial equity, and environmental justice, and accessibility, among others.
25 billion to support major projects that are not included in the current budget of the National Economic Benefit Party.
50 billion to support further investment in infrastructure resiliency.
To build 500,000 electric vehicle chargers across the country by 2030.
To electrify 20 percent of yellow school buses through a new Clean Bus for Kids program.
And $111 billion to spend on replacing 100 percent of the nation’s major water mains to ensure clean drinking water systems.
100 billion to build a high-speed, broadband network with 100 percent coverage;
100 billion to be spent on making the U.S. electric grid more resilient to allow the United States to reach 100 percent zero carbon emissions by 2035.
This will include a $10 billion investment in a new generation of Americans, the new Civilian Climate Corps, to conserve public lands, water and “environmental justice.
213 billion to create, preserve, and renew 2 million affordable places to live
This includes building $27 billion in clean energy and sustainability gas pedals, modernizing privately invested energy equipment, and upgrading homes, commercial buildings, government buildings; and clean transportation.
100 billion to upgrade and build new public schools, $50 billion of which would be funded directly and another $50 billion through public debt.
12 billion to build community college infrastructure, with each state responsible for improving existing equipment and technology to meet internal infrastructure needs.
25 billion to help upgrade the facilities of child care facilities and increase the number of facilities providing child care where needed.
18 billion to help modernize hospitals and clinics where veterans go.
10 billion to upgrade federal buildings to be modern, sustainable, and resilient.
400 billion to expand affordable housing, or community housing for the elderly, or housing for the disabled.
180 billion to invest in the technology of the future.
Including $35 billion for technologies to break through the climate crisis and “make America a global leader,” which includes launching ARPA-C’s new approach to reducing carbon emissions to clean up the climate and doing research in this area
15 billion to demonstrate the use of climate-related projects such as how to store energy, how to capture carbon, hydrogen and how to store them, and how to separate rare substances, how to use biofuels/bioproducts, offshore wind, quantum computing, and electric vehicles.
150 billion to build 200 centers of excellence at black and minority colleges or universities to serve as research reserves for disadvantaged populations, including pre-college programs for them, etc.
300 billion to strengthen the manufacturing supply chain for key commodities
50 billion to establish a new office in the Department of Commerce dedicated to monitoring domestic industrial investment and investing in the production of key commodities.
50 billion for semiconductor manufacturing and research in response to a bipartisan call for the CHIPS Act
30 billion over four years to build American jobs to avoid severe job losses due to the pandemic, and would create jobs through production primarily in the manufacture of medical devices, etc.; research and development, and related biodefense and biosecurity.
46 billion will be spent on promoting clean energy through federal procurement
52 billion to invest in domestic manufacturers.
100 billion to direct jobs to vulnerable populations and students (before they graduate from high school)
5 billion of which will support job training and public safety over 8 years
48 billion to strengthen America’s workplace infrastructure to keep workers safe, including registered apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs, create a million to two million new apprenticeships, and provide more pre-apprenticeship programs in non-traditional occupations
The Biden Administration also has a number of proposals or programs listed in Fraud that do not involve money or specific funding amounts: -Calls on Congress to pass a new funding plan that would provide for a new apprenticeship program.
-Calls on Congress to pass a new funded jobs program to address long-term unemployment and underemployment
-Call on Congress to eliminate portions of the Fair Labor Standards Act’s minimum wage provision 14(c) and expand access to competitive, integrated employment, and fair wage opportunities for people with disabilities
-Calls on Congress to ensure that workers have a free and fair choice to join a union; and to ensure that unions and workers have bargaining power
-Calls on Congress to make investments in clean energy and infrastructure to protect prevailing wage levels required by the federal government, and to require that investments in transportation be consistent with the protection of transportation workers
-Calls on Congress to provide good tools for employees to ensure that the federal government works well, including fair and equal pay, a safe and healthy workplace, and protection from racial, gender, and other forms of discrimination and harassment.
-Biden called on Congress to take immediate steps to stimulate the building and renovation of home-based communities
-Calls on Congress to pass the Neighborhood Investment Homes Act to create a new federal tax credit program to develop housing in urban, suburban, and rural communities that families of one to four people can live in.
-Calls on Congress to strongly support technology manufacturing and expand partnerships to increase minority-owned businesses, and small and medium-sized businesses in rural areas.
-Calls on Congress to ensure that new jobs, and infrastructure created in clean energy can be opened up to people of color and women of color.
-Calls on Congress to invest in on-the-job training for young people and the disadvantaged, and to improve public safety.
The President’s plan would help vulnerable populations by investing in a range of programs, including miscellaneous grants, resilient infrastructure at FEMA buildings, and community planning, the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant program, and the Department of Transportation’s new initiative, a bipartisan tax credit that provides incentives for low- and moderate-income families and small businesses to invest in, and enhance their resilience to disasters.
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