Democrats accelerate big spending trend with infrastructure plan

It’s Infrastructure Week in earnest, this time as President Joe Biden unveils a massive new federal spending package with a total price tag likely to exceed $2 trillion, with later additions dwarfing any similar proposal by his recent predecessors.

“This Wednesday, the president will be laying out the first of two equally … critical packages to rebuild our economy and create better-paying jobs for American workers,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Monday. “He’ll talk this week about investments we need to make in domestic manufacturing, R&D, the caregiving economy, and infrastructure.”