“It’s not a plan that tinkers around the edges,” Biden said at a carpenters training center in Pittsburgh. It aims to reduce racial and income inequality by targeting some spending to neighborhoods that have seen little government investment over the years. “Right now, people think you need big government,” said Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster who worked with Biden’s campaign last year. The additional revenue would offset the cost of Biden’s spending over 15 years, according to his administration, and reduce the federal debt thereafter. The infrastructure proposal is split into four main parts.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 31, 2021 09:02 UTC