A slightly resolved tone in the US infrastructure controversy: From the ranks of Republicans in Congress, there is a compromise proposal for the president Joe Biden Announced the $ 2 trillion program. On ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, senior Republican Senator Roy Blunt said, “The White House said many times,” You focus almost exclusively on infrastructure with this package, so you got an easy bipartisan victory here. can do.

So far, the package has provided more spending on charging stations for electric vehicles than traditional infrastructure improvements, Blunt criticized. “When people think of infrastructure, they think of roads, bridges, ports and airports.” The government can also implement these aspects of the package later.

Blunt’s proposal for a scale-down package took a different tone than the Republican minority leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnellWho recently announced bitter opposition to Biden’s program. McConnell said last Thursday, “He will contest the plan at every stage, because this plan is” the wrong recipe for America.

With the program, Biden wants to fundamentally modernize his country’s infrastructure and encourage economic development. The corporate tax has to be increased from 21 to 28 percent. The proposal was sharply criticized by opposition Republicans and business lobbyists, particularly because of this planned tax increase. So the tough discussion about the project is expected to be held in Congress.

Biden stressed that the program would create “millions of well-paying jobs”. The United States “cannot hesitate one more minute” to rebuild America’s infrastructure. “It will build the strongest, strongest, most innovative economy in the world,” Biden promised when he compared his concept of a “space race” at a presentation in Pittsburgh on Wednesday. In 50 years, people will look back and be amazed: »This was the moment when America Future won. “