Administration Debuts Infrastructure Package (Beltway Buzz, April 2, 2021)

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Just weeks after enacting the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act, the Biden administration this week unveiled the American Jobs Plan-its $2.3 trillion infrastructure package. The broad outline released by the White House (there is, of course, no actual bill yet) proposes investing in U.S. roads and bridges, the electrical grid, high-speed broadband, and the like. It also goes further, pledging to delve into the "care economy," supply chains, climate science, "small business incubators and innovation hubs," "domestic workers," and, of course, labor and employment. Though this is all theoretical at this point, here is what the administration says it hopes is included in the legislation: