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On June 20, 2021, Senator Bernie Sanders stated that he would not support paying for the bill via a proposed gas tax or a surcharge on electric vehicles. [216] On June 28, 2021, Sunrise Movement and several progressive representatives performed a protest at the White House in criticism of the size and scope of Biden's Civilian Climate Corps ...
A total of seven federal agencies received funding through the infrastructure bill, ... a grade unchanged since 2017 with a $176 billion unfunded maintenance backlog as of 2021, according to ...
November 5, 2021 at 8:35 PM. Dems end deadlock, House sends Biden infrastructure bill. WASHINGTON (AP) — The House approved a $1 trillion package of road and other infrastructure projects late ...
By Steve Holland. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two years after President Joe Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law, his administration has launched 40,000 projects aimed at rebuilding ...
A budget resolution for the 2021 fiscal year began to be considered by the 117th United States Congress in February 2021. As appropriations for the fiscal year had already been approved, the budget resolution's main purpose was to begin the budget reconciliation process to allow a COVID-19 pandemic relief bill to be passed without the possibility of being blocked by a filibuster.
The Build Back Better Act was a bill introduced in the 117th Congress to fulfill aspects of President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Plan.It was spun off from the American Jobs Plan, alongside the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, as a $3.5 trillion Democratic reconciliation package that included provisions related to climate change and social policy.
The size of the new bipartisan infrastructure bill isn’t the only thing that separates this legislation from its predecessors. WSJ’s Gerald F. Seib explains the five key ways this bill takes a ...
$73 billion in power infrastructure and clean energy transmission and; $65 billion for broadband development. [53] The bill also made the Minority Business Development Agency a permanent agency. [54] On August 10, The Senate voted 69–31 to advance the bill. [55] [56] On November 5, the House of Representatives passed it, 228–206. [57]