Biden’s $2 Trillion Infrastructure Proposal Faces Challenges

"It's time to build our economy from the bottom-up",

President Biden's proposed infrastructure plan paints a broad picture of what counts as infrastructure.

It's not just for fixing roads and bridges, but for building out broadband internet and technology to mitigate climate change.

In my view, this is a once in a lifetime moment.

I don't think in the next 50 years, we're going to see another time when we have this combination of a demonstrated need, bipartisan interest, widespread impatience

and a very supportive president who is committed, by the way,

not just to the infrastructure itself, but to the jobs we're going to create.

The package's jobs plan includes building the nation's clean energy workforce and boosting care giving as a profession.

Republican leaders say the proposal is too big.

The package envisions a network of 500,000 electric car charging stations by 2030.

When people think about infrastructure, they're thinking about roads, bridges, ports and airports.

That's a very small part of what they're calling an infrastructure package.

Paying for the bill is also an issue.

The package proposes tax increases on corporations which Republicans say they oppose.

The bill is now being taken up by congress with Democratic leaders aiming to get it to the president's desk for his signature in the coming months.

The package will be a test of the Democratic Party's unity.

If Biden can't get support from any Republicans,

he will need every democrat to vote for it in the evenly divided senate.