Republican-backed Or Not, President Joe Biden Is Still Rolling Out A $ 2 Trillion Infrastructure Program

President of the United States Joe Biden. (Raga Granada / VOI)

JAKARTA - President of the United States Joe Biden will continue to push for an infrastructure program worth $ 2 trillion, without support from Republican lawmakers, if there is no bipartisan agreement.

This was disclosed by the Minister of Energy Jennifer Granholm, Sunday, April 4 local time. According to her, President Biden preferred that his plan had the support of the Republican Party. But if that doesn't work, he will likely support using a procedural strategy called reconciliation to allow Democrats to pass it in the Senate.

"As he said, he was sent into the presidency to do work for America. And if most Americans, Democrats, and Republicans, across the country support spending in our country and don't allow us to lose out on a global scale, then he will", Granholm said at CNN's 'State of the Union' as reported by Reuters.

Since taking office in January, President Joe Biden has repeatedly said he wants to work with Republicans, but the infrastructure program, President Biden's major legislative initiative, has so far not attracted more support than the first.

What he meant was $ 1.9 trillion worth of COVID-19 aid that was endorsed only with Democrats' support last month, using reconciliation.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell last week called President Biden's infrastructure plan a bold move that drew attention. However, it will raise taxes and increase debt. He vowed to oppose this plan.

Meanwhile, Republican Senator Roy Blunt on Sunday urged President Biden to significantly cut back on the plan if he wants Republican lawmakers' support.

"If we go back, look at roads and bridges and ports and airports, and maybe even underground water systems and broadband, you're still going to be talking about less than 30 percent of this whole package", Blunt said on Fox News Sunday.

Another Republican Senator, Roger Wicker, even called this infrastructure plan a plan to increase taxes, instead of efforts to repair and rebuild the country's transportation, communications, water, and electricity networks.

"What the president is proposing this week is not an infrastructure bill. This is a very big tax hike", Wicker told 'Meet the Press' NBC.

There is also the Director of the National Economic Council Brian Deese in the FOX television program said, The investment in Biden's infrastructure plan is long-term and very much needed to encourage job growth.

For your information, the Infrastructure Plan, announced last week by President Joe Biden, will increase the company's income tax rate to 28 percent. Previously, in 2017 President Donald Trump cut this tax from 35 percent to 21 percent.

However, Donald Trump's repeated promises to fix infrastructure problems in the United States during his tenure have never been fulfilled.