President Joe Biden will unveil a $2.25 trillion US infrastructure plan on Wednesday that the administration says will prove the most sweeping since investments in the 1960s space program and 1950s interstate-highway system.
“Like great projects of the past, the president’s plan will unify and mobilize the country to meet the great challenges of our time: the climate crisis and the ambitions of an autocratic China,” the White House said in a statement before Biden’s afternoon speech in Pittsburgh.
The four-part, eight-year plan dedicates $620 billion for transportation — including a doubling in federal funding for public transit — and $650 billion for initiatives tied to improving quality of life at home, like clean water and high-speed broadband.
