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The Biden administration’s American Jobs Plan talks about a climate crisis and an affordable housing crisis in its attempt to address the country’s infrastructure crisis.
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Some argue that is the most politically prudent way to pass some of the provisions that they fear may not have enough bipartisan support to evade a filibuster on their own.
And they expressed concern that if the plan doesn’t get through Congress, it could make Biden’s pledges like getting U.S. emissions to half of 2005 levels by the end of the decade much harder to accomplish.
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The president’s American Jobs Plan has a number of provisions aimed at combating climate change including electric vehicles, building efficiency upgrades and a clean electricity standard, which would require power providers to get all their energy from clean sources by 2035.
The president's conservation plan will require increased funding of USDA conservation programs. "It will take more resources than we’ve had in the past," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack acknowledged.