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Infrastructure Plan Underwhelms, Shortchanges Inland Ports
| 题名： | Infrastructure Plan Underwhelms, Shortchanges Inland Ports |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 摘要： | President Joe Biden announced the details of his infrastructure plan on March 31. It is the opening salvo of what is expected to be a months-long negotiation with Republicans in the Senate, at least some of whose support the administration needs to pass this bill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hopes the bill will be passed by July 4, but negotiations are sure to be contentious. Just as most of the provisions of the recently passed and signed American Rescue Plan bill had little to do with COVID, this bill is only in part an infrastructure plan. It does include $621 billion for transportation, $100 billion for high-speed broadband, another $100 billion for the power grid, and so on. But it is stuffed with provisions having little to do with what has traditionally been called infrastructure: $400 billion in aid for home care workers, $180 billion for federal research and development, $100 billion for workforce development and $12 billion for community colleges, for example. The administration calls these things "social infrastructure," and Biden is supposed to offer more details in another address later. |
| 出版年： | 2021 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 135 |
| 期： | 1 |
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