Critics say Biden’s plan is burdening future taxpayers with massive debt – U.S. national debt is now nearly $28 trillion – unnecessarily bails out local and state governments with funding unrelated to the COVID-19 pandemic, and is slowing economic recovery by extending federal supplemental unemployment benefits while businesses are struggling to find workers, despite job growth.

President Joe Biden visited Chicago’s northwest suburbs on Wednesday to talk about the American Rescue Plan Act, a $1.9 trillion package of new spending approved by Congress in March.