]> 2026-04-10T09:41:54+00:00 Biden's Infrastructure Claim - Workflow 0 en In his State of The Union Address, Biden, speaking about his Infrastructure Bill, said: “The single biggest investment in history was a bipartisan effort.” —The fact is, it wasn’t that historic. The bill was big, adding $550 billion in fresh spending on roads, bridges, and broadband Internet over five years. But measured as a proportion of the U.S. economy, it is slightly below the 1.36% of the nation’s gross domestic product that was spent on infrastructure, on average, during the first four years of the New Deal, according to an analysis by the Brookings Institution. It is even further below the roughly 2% spent on infrastructure in the late 1970s and early 1980s. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ap-fact-check-bidens-claims-in-his-state-of-union-address —Whatever Biden’s or Buttigieg’s lip-service to climate goals, this money to DOTs is likely to go in large part to expanding capacity in ways that ramp up driving nationwide,” says Jeff Speck, author of the book Walkable City. It does not further climate goals. https://www.governing.com/now/the-infrastructure-bill-may-not-be-so-historic-after-all —Historians, economists and engineers interviewed by The Associated Press welcomed Biden’s efforts. But they stressed that $1 trillion was not nearly enough to overcome the government’s failure for decades to maintain and upgrade the country’s infrastructure. The politics essentially forced a trade-off in terms of potential impact not just on the climate but on the ability to outpace the rest of the world this century and remain the dominant economic power. https://fortune.com/2021/11/15/historians-economists-joe-biden-1-trillion-infrastructure-bill-big-deal-not-transformational/ Afd6ffAciDafDff6ac9d Workflow User:Frank User:Isophist 5 User:Merel2 User:Rht5 Biden's Infrastructure Claim https://www.governing.com/now/the-infrastructure-bill-may-not-be-so-historic-after-all <b>“The single biggest investment in history </b><i>was a bipartisan effort.</i>”<div><br></div> No done done Settled Factual Lie Biden's Infrastructure Claim - Workflow 2022-03-21T13:12:45Z 2459660.0505208 Biden's Infrastructure Claim - Workflow 1452 0 1 plainlist 4 [[Class::Suit]] [[Case ID::Afd6ffAciDafDff6ac9d]] Biden's Infrastructure Claim - Workflow# QUERYb954d42af2934047d2787ab1b9d61908 Verdict:Afd6ffAciDafDff6ac9d/1 3000 en Afd6ffAciDafDff6ac9d/1 Verdict:Afd6ffAciDafDff6ac9d/2 3000 en Afd6ffAciDafDff6ac9d/2 Verdict:Afd6ffAciDafDff6ac9d/3 3000 en Afd6ffAciDafDff6ac9d/3 Verdict:Afd6ffAciDafDff6ac9d/4 3000 en Afd6ffAciDafDff6ac9d/4 Verdict:Afd6ffAciDafDff6ac9d/5 3000 en Afd6ffAciDafDff6ac9d/5 Verdict:Afd6ffAciDafDff6ac9d/6 3000 en Afd6ffAciDafDff6ac9d/6 Biden's Infrastructure Claim 0 en Biden's Infrastructure Claim Participant/244 0 en Participant/244 Participant/245 0 en Participant/245 Participant/246 0 en Participant/246 Participant/247 0 en Participant/247 Participant/248 0 en Participant/248 Participant/249 0 en Participant/249 Workflow 102 en Workflow