Charles Morgan Everything About Democrats' 'Big' And 'Green' Multi-Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Plan

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Less than one week after the passage of President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, Democrats are pivoting to work on what's likely to be an even larger clean-energy package that could pump $4 trillion into the nation's infrastructure and be revealed as early as May.

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Speaking to ABC's This Week on Sunday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said the bill can "hopefully" be crafted on a bipartisan basis–unlike the latest stimulus package, which passed with no Republican support–given its focus on infrastructure like roads, bridges and water supply systems. 

To that end, Pelosi on Friday called on Democratic committee chairs in Congress to begin crafting a "big, bold and transformational infrastructure package" with their Republican counterparts, adding that she hopes a bipartisan "spirit will prevail" to address critical needs in energy, broadband, education, housing and utilities while creating jobs "in every zip code."

Details on the package thus far have been vague (and Pelosi on Friday dodged a question asking for a specific timeline), but in a Saturday note to clients, Goldman Sachs said the legislation should increase spending and tax incentives for traditional and green infrastructure by at least $2 trillion, with Biden likely to preview the plan when he addresses a joint session of Congress in April.

“It is going to be green and it is going to be big,” Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, told the Associated Press of the plan on Sunday, adding that he hopes the bill can pass his committee in May, in line with the timeline Goldman relayed Saturday.

Despite the hope in Washington, Goldman is "skeptical" the entire infrastructure package can pass with bipartisan support, citing Republican opposition to the package and particularly the Trump tax cuts that will likely be rolled back to pay for it. 

September 30 marks the deadline for the infrastructure bill to pass Congress, Goldman notes, pointing to the expiration date for a highway and transportation funding bill that will help shape the package, which the bank says could be enacted as soon as late July.

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