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By Tanya Snyder, Politico
August 9, 2021
President Joe Biden had big visions for his infrastructure plan: It would jump-start the economic recovery, counter racial inequities and combat climate change. Schools, public housing and child care centers would get money for badly needed upgrades. Americans would receive help paying for health care, including in their homes.
None of those ambitions survived in the bill that the Senate is poised to approve Tuesday, which also whittled the proposal to $550 billion in new spending. The quest for bipartisan agreement also sacrificed a host of other Democratic ambitions, including the vast majority of the money Biden had proposed for removing lead water mains and installing charging stations for electric vehicles.
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