infrastructure bill
Roads and bridges funding
An infrastructure bill is legislation that funds construction and maintenance of large-scale public systems—roads, bridges, airports, water systems, power grids, broadband networks.
In American political discourse, infrastructure bills often become vehicles for broader spending debates, with disagreements over what counts as infrastructure: The infrastructure bill included funding for electric vehicle charging stations.
Such bills typically involve massive appropriations and years of implementation.
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- CongressU.S. lawmaking body
- Capitol HillCongressional district and synecdoche
- fundingSupplying monetary resources
- highwaysMajor intercity roads
bridges · roads · spending · bipartisan · trillion · federal dollars · investment · construction · broadband · supply chain · green energy · electric vehicles · airports · railways · waterways · crumbling · repair · jobs
- economic policymonetary policy, tax policy, fiscal discipline, fiscal stimulus, fiscal restraint
- 2020sCOVID-19, pandemic, vaccine, lockdown, January 6th
- public fundingappropriations, federal grants, state grants, capital funding, matching funds
- policiespolicy, act, code of conduct, workplace policies, public policy
- Government Programswelfare program, Great Society, healthcare reform, Medicare, Medicaid
- legislationbills, acts, laws, statutes, bill
infrastructure billausterity measures
Policies reducing government spending
fiscal conservatism · balanced budget amendment · spending freeze · budget cuts · supply-side economics
infrastructure billdemolition order
Authorization to raze structures
disinvestment · monetary policy · decay · deferred maintenance · abandonment
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