Updated on Nov 9, 2021
What’s in the infrastructure bill?
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Remember when infrastructure week was just a meme, random rage tweets from one-term President Trump, photos of Jarred Kushner and Ivanka Trump (for reasons still unknown), and nothing actually getting accomplished? Those days are over.
Friday night, the House of Representatives passed the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill with 13 Republicans joining 215 Democrats which will now go to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law.
What’s in the infrastructure bill?
Transportation
- Roads, bridges, major projects: $110 billion
- Passenger and freight rail: $66 billion
- Public transit: $39 billion
- Airports: $25 billion
- Port infrastructure: $17 billion
- Transportation safety programs: $11 billion
- Electric vehicles: $7.5 billion
- Zero and low-emission buses and ferries: $7.5 billion
- Revitalization of communities: $1 billion
Other infrastructure
- Broadband internet: $65 billion
- Power infrastructure: $73 billion
- Clean drinking water: $55 billion
- Resilience and Western water storage: $50 billion
- Removal of pollution from water and soil: $21 billion
Source: NPR
Download the Infrastructure Bill – H.R.3684 (PDF 2mb)
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