Biden Pens Op-Ed on Infrastructure Deal: One the ‘American People Can Be Proud Of’

President Joe Biden says the American people “can be proud of” the bipartisan infrastructure deal.

In an op-ed on Yahoo News published Monday evening, the president wrote, “This deal is the largest long-term investment in our infrastructure in nearly a century. Economists of all stripes agree that it would create good jobs and dramatically strengthen our economy in the long run.”

He added, “But the deal also represents much more. It is a signal to ourselves, and to the world, that American democracy can work and deliver for the people.”

Biden also cautioned, “There is plenty of work ahead to finish the job. There will be disagreements to resolve and more compromise to be forged,” before adding, “But this is a deal the American people can be proud of.”

Additionally, the president wrote:

“While the bill is missing some critical initiatives on climate change that I proposed — initiatives I intend to pass in the reconciliation bill — the infrastructure deal nonetheless represents a crucial step forward in building our clean energy future. It would make the largest investment in clean energy transmission in American history, modernizing our power grid to accelerate the build-out of zero-carbon, renewable energy. It would replace thousands of gas-guzzling buses with clean, electric ones — including 35,000 electric school buses. It would cap abandoned wells leaking methane gas.

And more: The deal would deploy a nationwide network of charging stations for electric vehicles — 500,000 stations in total. It makes historic investments in rail and transit that will get passenger vehicles off the road and reduce fossil fuel consumption. There’s much more work to do to reach our ambitious climate goals, but the investments in this deal are critical in facilitating our transition to a clean energy economy.”