President Joe Biden and members of his government began talking to Congressional lawmakers about their plans to invest in the country’s infrastructure, according to The Associated Press.
Billions of dollars would go to transport and infrastructure projects as part of the $ 1.9 trillion stimulus project approved by House legislators on Friday.
But Biden’s plans to rebuild the country’s roads, highways and bridges could come at a much higher price. As a candidate, Biden proposed an investment of $ 1.3 trillion over 10 years.
“Our nation’s infrastructure is literally disintegrating,” said the plan. He continued: “It is unacceptable that one in every five miles of our highways is in ‘bad condition’, that tens of millions of Americans do not have access to high-speed broadband and that our public schools have repeatedly obtained a D + rating from American Society of Civil Engineers ”.
Biden’s team used this month’s strong winter storm in Texas, where millions lost access to energy or water, as an opportunity to start talking about their plans, by AP. This storm may have caused up to $ 50 billion in damage.
Earlier this month, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, an internal security adviser, told members of the press that the federal government and states would need to work together to prepare the country’s infrastructure for future challenges, including storms.
“This will require the kind of technology, innovation and close collaboration between the federal government, states, communities and the private sector that allows us to encourage the types of actions that need to be taken to build critically – build the type of resilient infrastructure on which we will depend. in the future, “said Sherwood-Randall.