{"id":2411,"date":"2021-10-06T08:38:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T12:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2021-10-06T08:38:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T12:38:10","slug":"biden-pitches-3-5-trillion-spending-and-tax-proposal-and-a-1-trillion-infrastructure-bill-in-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/2021\/10\/06\/biden-pitches-3-5-trillion-spending-and-tax-proposal-and-a-1-trillion-infrastructure-bill-in-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden pitches $3.5-trillion spending and tax proposal and a $1-trillion infrastructure bill in Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>United States President Joe Biden travelled to Michigan Tuesday to sell his ambitious social spending and infrastructure proposals directly to the American public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden\u2019s signature $3.5-trillion spending and tax proposal and a $1-trillion infrastructure bill have hit roadblocks on Capitol Hill as members of the president\u2019s Democratic Party have been unable to agree on the size and scope of his proposals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/file\/2021\/10\/money-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2413\" width=\"292\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/file\/2021\/10\/money-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/file\/2021\/10\/money-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/file\/2021\/10\/money-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/file\/2021\/10\/money-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/file\/2021\/10\/money-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese bills are about competitiveness versus complacency. They\u2019re about opportunity, versus decay,\u201d Biden said during an address at a union training centre in Howell, Michigan, on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo support these investments is to support a rise in America \u2013 Americans moving,\u201d Biden said. \u201cTo oppose these investments is to be complicit in America\u2019s decline.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With public opinion polls showing a slide in his approval ratings, Biden faces\u00a0a critical moment\u00a0in his presidency \u2013 and failure to win passage of both bills could stall his agenda for the rest of his four-year term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHere in Michigan, we need to make sure that American autoworkers lead the world electric vehicles,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0In Washington, DC negotiations continued between White House officials and Democratic leaders to find a path forward to pass both bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States President Joe Biden travelled to Michigan Tuesday to sell his ambitious social spending and infrastructure proposals directly to the American public. Biden\u2019s signature $3.5-trillion spending and tax proposal and a $1-trillion infrastructure bill have hit roadblocks on Capitol Hill as members of the president\u2019s Democratic Party have been unable to agree on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[59,2557,2558,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-2411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-biden","9":"tag-debt-ceiling","10":"tag-infrastructure-bill","11":"tag-joe-biden"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}