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原文传递 Bipartisan infighting catches nation's infrastructure in crosshairs

题名：	Bipartisan infighting catches nation's infrastructure in crosshairs
正文语种：	eng
作者：	John D.Schulz
摘要：	THE FUTURE OF THE NATION'S crumbling infrastructure is caught in a huge political battle, largely over what counts as infrastructure. Democrats are united behind President Joe Biden's $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan, which includes everything from highways and bridges to home care for elderly and preschool for 3-year-olds. They say it's time for a "transformational" approach to rebuilding America in order to compete with China. "Throughout our history, public investments and infrastructure have transformed America," said President Biden recently in a joint address to Congress. "The transcontinental railroad and interstate highways united two oceans and brought us into a totally new age of progress. These are investments we make together, as one country, and that only government can make. Time and again, they propel us into the future." Republicans are taking a stricter, constructionist approach-roads, bridges, ports and seaways. A group of Senate Republicans, led by Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), is backing a $568 billion infrastructure proposal as a counteroffer to Biden's "go-big" plan. The group is pushing user fees for electric vehicles and finding unused federal spending allocated by the $ 1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that Congress passed in March to cover the cost of the plan.
出版年：	2021
期刊名称：	Logistics Management
卷：	60
期：	6