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Joe Biden signed on Monday, with great fanfare in the gardens of the White House, the law – passed painfully by Congress about ten days ago – on a $ 1,200 billion plan to modernize roads, bridges , the high-speed Internet network, and considered one of the most ambitious in modern American history.
The President of the United States Joe Biden ratified, Monday, November 15, his gigantic plan on the infrastructures thanks to which “America will again move forward”.
The American president signed his great law adopted by forceps in Congress, during a ceremony with great pomp in the gardens of the White House, attended by elected Democrats and Republicans who pushed for the adoption of the text.
“This is my message to Americans: America will move forward again and your life will change for the better,” said a visibly cheered up president.
It’s official, folks: I’ve signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal into law.
President Biden (@POTUS) November 15, 2021
This law devotes 1,200 billion dollars to the renovation or construction of bridges, roads, terminals for electric cars and water pipes. It should also make it possible to develop public transport and the high-speed Internet network.
While Joe Biden’s plans are popular with Americans, his confidence rating has steadily declined since the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan this summer. The latest Washington Post and ABC network opinion poll, released Sunday, puts the US president’s confidence rating at 41%. Only 39% of Americans approve of his economic policies, and 70% of them consider the economic situation in the United States to be bad.
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The world’s leading economic power has taken off with a bang, it is also experiencing a surge in inflation and supply problems, while the White House has not, as it promised itself, completely turned the page on the pandemic. What weigh on the daily life of this middle class to which Joe Biden continues to promise better days.
The surge in prices is also complicating another major project of the American president, less consensual than the infrastructure plan: $ 1,750 billion in social spending and aid for the energy transition, which must be examined this week by the House of Commons. representatives and then be voted on by the Senate.
There, it is impossible to count on the support of the Republicans, some of whom cry out for “socialism”, the worst possible scarecrow in the American political imagination. It will be necessary to convince the most central Democratic senators, and in particular Joe Manchin (West Virginia) and Kyrsten Sinema (Arizona), both present at the ceremony on Monday.
With AFP and Reuters
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