The White House released a fact sheet of President Joe Biden’s proposed $2.5 trillion infrastructure bill on Wednesday, detailing his multi-billion-dollar spending priorities.
Here are some of the top 45 spending proposals:
- $400 billion toward expanding access to quality, affordable home- or community-based care for aging relatives and people with disabilities.
- $213 billion to produce, preserve, and retrofit more than two million affordable and sustainable places to live.
- $174 billion to win the electric vehicle market.
- $115 billion to modernize the bridges, highways, roads, and main streets that are in most critical need of repair.
- $111 billion to replace 100 percent of the nation’s lead pipes and service lines.
- $100 billion to upgrade and build new public schools
- $100 billion to build high-speed broadband infrastructure to reach 100 percent coverage.
- $100 billion to build a more resilient electric transmission system.
- $85 billion to modernize existing transit and help agencies expand their systems to meet rider demand.
- $80 billion to address Amtrak’s repair backlog; modernize the high traffic Northeast Corridor; improve existing corridors and connect new city pairs.
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