{"id":6725,"date":"2021-12-02T19:24:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T19:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6725"},"modified":"2021-12-02T19:24:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T19:24:48","slug":"the-bipartisan-infrastructure-law-is-both-historic-and-not-nearly-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6725","title":{"rendered":"The bipartisan infrastructure law is both historic and not nearly enough"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;About $550 billion of the $1.2 trillion law is new spending, which will be spread out over five years. The remaining $650 billion in the bill would have been allocated for existing transportation and highway programs under previously planned funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new money in the bill will go toward a wide range of projects, including road repairs, high-speed internet services, and investments in electric buses. Notably, the infrastructure bill was backed by both Democratic lawmakers and some Republicans, and was the culmination of years long attempts to advance infrastructure legislation that\u2019s spanned presidential administrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While it\u2019s a landmark investment, the legislation only authorizes a fraction of the funding required to tackle the entirety of the US\u2019s infrastructural challenges. Across specific categories of the bill, including lead water pipe replacement and broadband, it\u2019s likely to take much more than what\u2019s already been allocated to fully solve issues of access, safety, and equity. The bill includes $15 billion specifically for addressing lead pipes, for instance, while experts believe&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/08\/02\/biden-lead-problem-502149\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">it will take $60 billion<\/a>&nbsp;to actually replace every lead pipe in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, the passage of this bill \u2014 which contains critical funding that the country has needed for decades \u2014 is significant, and an important down payment for future investments.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22770447\/infrastructure-bill-democrats-biden-water-broadband-roads-buses\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22770447\/infrastructure-bill-democrats-biden-water-broadband-roads-buses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;About $550 billion of the $1.2 trillion law is new spending, which will be spread out over five years. The remaining $650 billion in the bill would have been allocated for existing transportation and highway programs under previously planned funding.<br \/>\nThe new money in the bill will go toward a wide range of projects, including road repairs, high-speed internet services, and investments in electric buses. Notably, the infrastructure bill was backed by both Democratic lawmakers and some Republicans, and was the culmination of years long attempts to advance infrastructure legislation that\u2019s spanned presidential administrations.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s a landmark investment, the legislation only authorizes a fraction of the funding required to tackle the entirety of the US\u2019s infrastructural challenges. Across specific categories of the bill, including lead water pipe replacement and broadband, it\u2019s likely to take much more than what\u2019s already been allocated to fully solve issues of access, safety, and equity. The bill includes $15 billion specifically for addressing lead pipes, for instance, while experts believe it will take $60 billion to actually replace every lead pipe in America.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the passage of this bill \u2014 which contains critical funding that the country has needed for decades \u2014 is significant, and an important down payment for future investments.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[905,1193,1247,780,279],"class_list":["post-6725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bill","tag-government-spending","tag-infrastructure","tag-joe-biden","tag-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6726,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions\/6726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}