Category: infrastructure plan

Nova Scotia Says It Will Spend $1.6 Billion on Infrastructure in Coming Year

Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservative government says it will spend $1.62 billion on its capital plan in the coming year, the largest single-year infrastructure budget in the province’s history. Finance Minister Allan MacMaster said in a statement that the province’s planned 2023-24 spending on highways, schools, hospitals and land reflects the needs of Nova Scotia’s growing…


Capitol Report (June 27): SCOTUS Rules in Favor of Open Prayer; Pregnancy Centers Under Attack

Group of Seven (G-7) leaders are moving closer to imposing a “price cap” on Russian oil. What would that mean, and will it actually work? Meanwhile, President Joe Biden is committing $200 billion to a global infrastructure plan to counter China. In another high-profile ruling, the Supreme Court sided with a former football coach who…


US Allocates $14 Billion to Expand Ports, Shore Up Waterways

WASHINGTON—The Biden administration on Wednesday said it will fund $14 billion in projects to improve the country’s ports and waterways in an effort to increase climate resilience, improve drinking water sources, and bolster the U.S. supply chain. The funds, for fiscal year 2022, target more than 500 projects in 52 states and territories, including Florida’s…


White House Announces ‘Bipartisan’ Infrastructure Deal

The White House and several senators announced Wednesday that they’ve reached a deal that would provide $550 billion in new federal investment into U.S. infrastructure, coming after weeks of talks. In a statement released by the Biden administration, the White House and “bipartisan group” of senators announced an “agreement on the details of a once-in-a-generation…


After G7 Pledge, EU Seeks to Rival China’s ‘Belt and Road’ With Own Infrastructure Plan

BRUSSELS—European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday to launch a global infrastructure plan linking Europe to the world; a next step after deals with India and Japan and a similar pledge by the Group of Seven richest democracies. Suspicious of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative to link Europe to Asia via infrastructure…


On Infrastructure, Biden Readies to Make the Same Mistake Obama Made

Commentary President Joe Biden likes to associate himself with Barack Obama and in some ways models himself on the still popular ex-president. In many respects, Biden’s penchant for imitation might be a good thing. With this administration’s infrastructure effort, however, the imitation is unfortunate. Obama’s 2009 infrastructure effort failed horribly. The economy experienced the slowest…


Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Would Be a Drag on Economic Growth: Tax Foundation

The combined tax and spend features of the Biden administration’s proposed infrastructure package—the American Jobs Plan (AJP)—would lead to weaker economic growth and fewer jobs, a tax policy think tank estimates. The Washington-based Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan group that often subjects high tax policies to critical scrutiny, said in a new analysis that the AJP would shave…


Deep Dive (May 24): National Guard Leaves Nation’s Capital After 137 Days

National Guard troops are departing the nation’s capitol. Those deployed to protect the district began the process of leaving Washington on Sunday. Retired Lieutenant General Russel Honoré said the mission of securing the capitol has been accomplished—137 days after the events of Jan. 6. Infrastructure is still a hotly debated topic on Capitol Hill. President…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (May 21)

The Biden administration today offered up a new price tag on its infrastructure plan, students, parents, and organizers rally at Rutgers University to call for an end to the university’s vaccine mandate, and a group of Georgia voters are now able to review absentee ballots in Fulton County.


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (April 22)

Senate Republicans officially propose an infrastructure plan that’s less that half the cost of President Joe Biden’s plan, 20 state Attorneys General urge President Biden not to expand the Supreme Court, and Biden announces an ambitious goal at a two-day virtual climate summit.