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POLITICO Infrastructure push sets off feeding frenzy in Washington The White House’s rollout of the biggest infrastructure package in at least five decades has sparked a lobbying frenzy in Washington. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has privately told Democrats that she hopes the package can pass the House by the Fourth of July. | Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images Link Copied President Joe Biden has laid down his opening bid on infrastructure: a sprawling and ambitious $2 trillion plan designed to rebuild the country’s roads and bridges, expand access to clean water and broadband and create what ...

Biden’s infrastructure push sets off feeding frenzy in Washington POLITICO 9 hrs ago By Megan Cassella and Theodoric Meyer © Evan Vucci/AP Photo President Joe Biden delivers a speech on infrastructure spending at Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center, Wednesday, March 31, 2021, in Pittsburgh. President Joe Biden has laid down his opening bid on infrastructure: a sprawling and ambitious $2 trillion plan designed to rebuild the country’s roads and bridges, expand access to clean water and broadband and create what he says will be millions of jobs. Now everybody wants a ...

22:54 The associated delays on the I-71/75 corridor come just a couple months after the bridge reopened following a fiery crash involving a pair of semis that shut it down completely for six weeks, causing widespread traffic disruption across the Cincinnati metro area.  For more than a decade, there have been talks about a serious and possibly permanent project to ease the overcrowded span that connects Cincinnati to Covington via the interstates.  But not only have those talks stalled, Kentucky lawmakers in recent years expressly prohibited any use of tolls to fund the project, eliminating...

The package's cost is expected to be in the trillions of dollars, according to previous Biden proposals. It would come on the heels of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief and stimulus package, which has triggered concerns in Washington over how the government might pay for a massive infrastructure initiative. Biden campaigned for president on a clean energy infrastructure plan that his team said would cost $2 trillion over four years. It included a push to make commuter trains, buses and passenger vehicles run on electricity or clean fuel. At the time, Biden's campaign did not lay out ways t...

Washington is gearing up for a battle over raising taxes as President Biden looks for a way to pay for his agenda while Republicans are planning to dig in their heels ahead of the 2022 elections.