Commentary “It’s the largest American jobs investment since World War II,” President Joe Biden said on March 31 in Pittsburgh, as he announced his $2.3 trillion infrastructure program. “It will create millions of jobs, good-paying jobs.” He is correct. Biden will, in his American Jobs Plan as it’s formally called, create millions of good-paying jobs. Many of those jobs,…
Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Would Be a Drag on Economic Growth: Tax Foundation
June 5, 2021
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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…
Climate Change and the Energy Transition Demand a US Mining Revolution
May 25, 2021
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Commentary “Today, the data shows a looming mismatch between the world’s strengthened climate ambitions and the availability of critical minerals that are essential to realizing those ambitions,” says Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA). Yet the United States and the world are in the midst of a great “energy transition” to fight…
Biden to Meet GOP Senators for Infrastructure Talks on Thursday
May 8, 2021
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President Joe Biden will hold a meeting next week with six GOP senators as he looks to build bipartisan support for his sweeping American Jobs Plan, the $2.25 trillion “infrastructure” package that Republicans have thus far panned as too pricey and packed with spending unrelated to fixing the nation’s roads and bridges. A White House…
Biden’s American Unions Plan
Commentary President Joe Biden is traveling to Virginia and Louisiana this week to pitch his American Jobs Plan—also called an “infrastructure” plan. New bridges, safer highways and more broadband are easy sells. But that’s only half the story. Biden’s plan is a massive and coercive push to unionize the American workforce. Whether workers want it…
Biden Draws Ire from Republicans and Pushback from Democrats for $6 Trillion Spending Spree
April 29, 2021
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President Joe Biden’s $6 trillion in early-term spending schemes—his $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that passed with zero Republican votes along with his proposed $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan and $1.8 trillion American Families Plan—have drawn sharply critical reactions from Republicans, and more muted criticism from some Democrats, for their lofty price tags. Biden unveiled his…
Biden Draws Ire of Republicans, Pushback From Democrats for $6 Trillion Spending Spree
April 29, 2021
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President Joe Biden’s $6 trillion in early-term spending initiatives—his $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that passed with zero Republican votes, along with his proposed $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan and $1.8 trillion American Families Plan—have drawn sharply critical reactions from Republicans, and more muted criticism from some Democrats, for their lofty price tags. Biden unveiled his…
Republicans Unveil $568 Billion Infrastructure Counter to Biden’s American Jobs Plan
A group of Senate Republicans led by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) on Thursday unveiled a $568 billion infrastructure counter-proposal to President Joe Biden’s sweeping $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan, which the GOP has panned for going far beyond the traditional concept of “infrastructure.” Republicans launched their proposal at a press conference on Capitol Hill…
Republicans Unveil $568 Billion Counterproposal to Biden’s American Jobs Plan
A group of Senate Republicans led by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) unveiled a $568 billion infrastructure counterproposal to President Joe Biden’s sweeping $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan, which the GOP has panned for going far beyond the traditional concept of “infrastructure.” Republicans announced their proposal at a press conference on Capitol Hill on April…
Pelosi Hopes for Bipartisan Backing on Infrastructure Plan but ‘Ready’ to Resort to Reconciliation
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that she hopes some Republicans will back President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan but, if not, Democrats stand ready to resort to the reconciliation process in what would amount to another partisan push-through on a major piece of legislation. Pelosi began her weekly press conference on Capitol Hill by…
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