Inside the Biden Infrastructure Plan

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🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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President Biden is pushing the boundaries of how most Americans think of infrastructure. In a speech on Wednesday, he laid out his vision for revitalizing the nation’s infrastructure in broad, sweeping terms: evoking racial equality, climate change and support for the middle class. His multitrillion-dollar plan aims not only to repair roads and bridges, but also to bolster the nation’s competitiveness in things like 5G, semiconductors and human infrastructure. Today, we take a detailed look at what his plans entail and the congressional path he will have to navigate to get it passed.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Mike Obabaro.
0:02.6	This is a daily.
0:03.8	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.6	Today, President Biden is calling it an infrastructure bill,
0:16.1	but as my colleague, Jim Tankersley found,
0:19.3	the multi-trillion dollar proposal
0:21.9	is actually a blueprint for sweeping social and economic change.
0:27.5	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:33.0	It's Friday, April 2.
0:36.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:39.2	Two years ago, I began my campaign here in Pittsburgh.
0:43.6	And I was running to rebuild the backbone of America.
0:48.2	And today, I return as your president
0:51.7	to lay out the vision of how I believe we do that
0:56.1	and rebuild the backbone of America.
0:58.3	Jim's at the scene for us of this speech from President Biden.
1:02.2	So Joe Biden flies to Pittsburgh,
1:04.5	you know, a blue collar, steel town,
1:07.0	to give what is the first big sweeping,
1:10.4	structural economic policy speech of his presidency,
1:15.0	what the White House is calling the American Jobs Plan.
1:18.4	It's not a plan that Tankers around the edges.
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