Biden Touts $953 Billion Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal: It Signals ‘American Democracy Can Deliver’

President Joe Biden is touting a deal with a bipartisan group of senators on a $953 billion infrastructure package.

Speaking at the White House on Thursday, Biden said, “This deal means millions of good jobs and fewer burdens felt at the kitchen table and across the country.”

“But it also signals to ourselves and to the world that American democracy can deliver, and because of that it represents an important step forward for our country,” he added.

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Biden announced he supported the package earlier on Thursday, which a White House release said was the “largest long-term investment in our infrastructure and competitiveness in nearly a century.”

The White House touted that the framework for an infrastructure package would make “transformational and historic investments in clean transportation infrastructure, clean water infrastructure, universal broadband infrastructure, clean power infrastructure, remediation of legacy pollution, and resilience to the changing climate.”

The framework would “improve healthy, sustainable transportation,” “repair and rebuild our roads and bridges with a focus on climate change mitigation, resilience, equity, and safety for all user,” “build a national network of electric vehicle (EV) chargers along highways and in rural and disadvantaged communities,” and “prepare more of our infrastructure for the impacts of climate change, cyber attacks, and extreme weather events.”

It allocates $109 billion on repairing the nation’s roads, bridges, and other major physical infrastructure projects.