In Episode 29 behind the Secret Door, Alicia and Frances discuss Biden’s American Jobs Plan, a.ka. his infrastructure bill.

Frances and Alicia first spend time catching up with each other and sharing how they spent their Easter.  Frances is busy at work with the exploding real estate market in the Houston area and Alicia is pulling her hair out with her 2 toddlers.

Then they dive into the details of the American Jobs Plan.  $115 billion to revamp highways and roads?  $111 billion for clean drinking water?  $213 billion to build and retrofit more than 2 million homes? Universal broadband? $400 billion to expand access to home- or community-based care for seniors and people with disabilities? $100 billion to upgrade and build new public schools? End federal tax breaks for fossil fuel companies?  $50 billion to improve resilience to climate change, including by protecting electric grids (!!), food systems, urban infrastructure and hospitals in communities most vulnerable to flooding and other severe weather events? $35 billion toward clean-energy technology?  Sounds good to them!!!  Paying for it….that’s another issue.  Frances and Alicia discuss Biden’s proposed plan to pay for his bill including tax hikes on corporations.  Of course, Republicans don’t want to raise taxes on their biggest donors and are arguing that the bill is less than 5% infrastructure - the rest is a pie-in-the-sky liberal wish list.  So, getting the bill through Congress is going to be a big task for Biden.

So what do you think of the infrastructure bill? Do you like what is included?  Think it has any chance of passing? Or are the Republicans going to sabotage it?

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Sources:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/03/31/what-is-in-biden-infrastructure-plan/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/04/07/yellen-corporate-tax-infrastructure/?utm_campaign=wp_evening_edition&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_evening&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F31c3342%2F606e1d559d2fda1dfb461c42%2F59b6a3d29bbc0f706bb937ff%2F8%2F56%2F606e1d559d2fda1dfb461c42

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/04/05/gop-claim-that-only-5-7-percent-bidens-plan-is-real-infrastructure/

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-biden-push-limits-infrastructure-definition