Republicans Counter Bidenâs Infrastructure Plan
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Republican lawmakers unveiled a counterproposal on Thursday that includes a fraction of new spending on top of the expected reauthorization of current programs. President Biden will release his full $6 trillion budget proposal for the fiscal year 2022 on Friday.
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Senate Republicans Unveil $928 Billion Infrastructure Bill
Republican senators outlined a $928 billion infrastructure proposal to counter President Bidenâs plan. Their plan involves unused coronavirus aid, and focuses on rebuilding roads and bridges.
âWe are looking at today as a $928 billion package over eight years. It sticks to the core infrastructure features that we talked to initially. Itâs a serious effort to try to reach a bipartisan agreement. The president said to me and us in February that he was really agnostic as to whether we passed
February 2, 2021 6:13 AM By Brandon Lee
More Americans have taken at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine than have tested positive for the coronavirus, an early but still hopeful milestone in the race to end the pandemic.
As of yesterday evening, 26.5 million Americans had received one or both doses of the current vaccines, data gathered by the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker show. Since the first patient tested positive in the U.S. nearby Seattle a year ago, 26.2 million people in the country have tested positive for the disease, which has killed nearly 450,000 people, Johns Hopkins University data showed.
The U.S. has been administering vaccines at a faster daily rate than any country in the world, giving about 1.35 million doses per day, according to data gathered by Bloomberg News. While the rollout stumbled in its early days, in the six weeks since the first shots went into arms almost 7.8% of Americans have gotten one or more doses, and 1.8% are fully vaccinated.