During the Trump administration, the perpetual non-arrival of “infrastructure week” was a running joke among the political and pundit class in Washington, DC, with ambitious infrastructure announcements promised and then derailed by the former president’s personal political vendettas.
President Joe Biden, though, having passed his $1.9trn dollar Covid-19 stimulus earlier in March, unveiled an infrastructure plan on Wednesday (31 March).
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