Business anger grows at Biden's 'infrastructure
plan: Top firms criticize 'dangerously misguided'
$2T plan pouring billions into fixing racial
inequalities, climate change, electric cars (with
only 5% set aside for bridges, roads and trains)
Posted By: Imright, 4/3/2021 2:31:00 AM
Major American business groups have lined up against President Joe Biden's $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan – even after many of them got behind his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief effort.The opposition signals the headwinds the White House is up against promoting a package the Biden is designating as the next big push of his agenda, and one that he said Friday would create 19 million jobs.The U.S. Chamber of Commerce went after the plan as 'dangerously misguided.' 'Properly done, a major investment in infrastructure today is an investment in the future, and like a new home, should be paid for over time — say 30 years — by the users
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