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“On the whole, this proposal is a victory for our movement, and a real result of the power we’ve built over the past few years,” Ellen Sciales, press secretary for the Sunrise Movement, told The Hill. ADVERTISEMENT But environmentalists are worried that what they see now might look different as legislation moves through Congress, particularly with a razor-thin majority for Democrats in the Senate. It’s also no guarantee that moderate Democrats like Sen. Joe Manchin A recent ruling by the Senate parliamentarian gives Democrats the option of advancing the infrastructure package through ...

PolitiFact's ruling: Mostly False Here's why: Republican opposition to President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal has been swift and vocal. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that as written, the $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan released March 31 was a nonstarter. The conservative PAC Citizens United put Biden’s plan in the same boat as the Green New Deal, a sweeping environmental and social justice agenda that Republicans have condemned. "Does this sound like an infrastructure bill to you?" the group tweeted March 31, with a link to a New York Times article about the pr...

Fact-check: Is Biden's infrastructure plan the Green New Deal? By Jon Greenberg, PolitiFact.com Replay Video PolitiFact's ruling: Mostly False Here's why: Republican opposition to President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal has been swift and vocal. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that as written, the $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan released March 31 was a nonstarter. The conservative PAC Citizens United put Biden’s plan in the same boat as the Green New Deal, a sweeping environmental and social justice agenda that Republicans have condemned. © Tariq Ze...

Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan would take on the wreckage of drilling and mining But it will take more than the $16 billion Biden offered Share this story In Pittsburgh this week, Joe Biden unveiled a new infrastructure plan that will serve as the centerpiece for his economic agenda. Spending $2 trillion over eight years, the sweeping plan includes a wide range of measures, from building out electric vehicle charging stations to de-leading municipal water mains. As part of the plan, Biden wants to spend an “immediate up-front investment” of $16 billion to plug abandoned oil and gas wel...

And Biden plans a raft of executive actions to undo Trump's environmental policies.