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Friday, 04/02/2021 1:54:13 PM

Friday, April 02, 2021 1:54:13 PM

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It is very sad.
Looks like $1.5 trillion in non-infrastructure spending.

Here’s the breakdown.

Transportation:

$174 billion in electric vehicle investments
$115 billion for bridges and roads
$20 billion to improve road safety
$85 billion for existing public transit
$80 billion for railways
$50 billion to improve infrastructure resilience
$25 billion for airports
$17 billion for waterways and ports of entry
$20 billion to reconnect urban neighborhoods cut off by highways

Water, Internet, electric:

$45 billion to remove lead pipes
$56 billion for modernizing water systems
$100 billion for high-speed broadband
$100 billion for the electric grid and clean energy
$16 billion for putting "hundreds of thousands of people to work in union jobs" plugging oil and gas wells and restoring and reclaiming abandoned mines
$10 billion for a Civilian Climate Corps

Homes, schools, buildings:
$213 billion for affordable housing
$100 billion for school construction
$12 billion for community colleges
$25 billion for child care facilities
$18 billion for VA hospitals
$10 billion for federal buildings

Workforce, innovation:

$400 billion for home- or community-based care for the elderly and people with disabilities
$180 billion for research and development, including investing $50 billion in the National Science Foundation and $35 billion "to achieve technology breakthroughs that address the climate crisis"
$300 billion for manufacturing and business, including $50 billion for semiconductor research and manufacturing, $30 billion for pandemic preparedness and $52 billion for domestic manufacturers
$100 billion in workforce development programs targeted at underserved groups, including $5 billion for violence prevention programs



Iron Eyes Codi crying for our children that will be inheriting this huge debt and left to pay for this.



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