Biden braces for fight with both parties over broadly defined infrastructure packages

Published March 31, 2021 2:58pm ET



President Joe Biden wants to save infrastructure week from becoming a punchline after former President Donald Trump, putting his political capital on the line just two months into his term.

Biden will launch a campaign to pass his sweeping $2.25 trillion “American Jobs Plan” in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, the first of two proposals expected to invest up to $4 trillion in traditional and what he is calling “social” infrastructure to bolster a pandemic-battered economy and middle class.

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