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• Biden’s infrastructure plan offers a bridge to a better American future President Joe Biden delivers a speech on infrastructure spending in Pittsburgh on March 31. | APLike the New Deal in its grand scope, the American Jobs Plan promises to go a long way toward fixing roads, rebuilding schools and lifting paychecks for ordinary Americans. Our country is decades overdue for a federal infrastructure program that is big and bold enough to substantially modernize tens of thousands of miles of crumbling roads and bridges, detangle airports and significantly upgrade the nation’s…
• Stanford women’s hoops gets shoutouts from Tiger Woods, Steph Curry, Jennifer Azzi and the White House Stanford’s first NCAA women’s basketball championship in 29 years has drawn a star-studded receiving line, from former Cardinal such as Tiger Woods to our nation’s political leaders. President Biden tweeted out his congratulations Sunday night for how “Coach VanDerveer’s team shows how grit and tenacity can prevail.” Congratulations to @StanfordWBB on their NCAA Women's Basketball Championship win, and to @ArizonaWBB on a hard-fought season. This year, every college team went through a uniquely challenging season but Coach VanDerveer's team shows…
• Here are 9 hurdles Biden's infrastructure plan would have to overcome in Congress before it can become law Summary List PlacementPresident Joe Biden this week released his opening bid for an infrastructure overhaul, and now the White House and Democratic leaders face the arduous task of getting enough lawmakers on board to get a bill to his desk. They have little room or time for error. The outline of the American Jobs Plan Biden unveiled March 31 would cost $2.2 trillion over eight years and partially pay for the new spending by raising taxes on corporations. The White House…
• Teresa Giudice, Daughters, and Boyfriend Hold Family Dinner with Ex Joe This week's episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey was hard for the Giudice family. Teresa was confronted, and the girls watched their uncle blame their father for everything that's gone wrong. In real life, however, Teresa, her daughters, and her boyfriend Luis Ruelas traveled to meet up with Joe. In the Bahamas, Joe and Luis met for the first time and they all shared a large family dinner. If you follow the Giudices on Instagram, you've probably already…
• Political analyst: Disagreement but some chance for bipartisan support on Biden’s infrastructure plan After President Joe Biden outlined a huge $2.3 trillion plan Wednesday to reengineer the nation’s infrastructure in what he billed as “a once-in-a-generation investment in America,” News4Jax political analyst Rick Mullaney said bipartisan support will be hard to come by but no impossible for the proposal. “If you break it down, there is an opportunity for bipartisan support in three categories. One is traditional infrastructure, capital spending on roads, bridges, highways, electrical grids, water, even broadband. That’s about $600 billion,…
• Biden's infrastructure plan includes more than $300 billion for small businesses, manufacturers, and entrepreneurs Summary List PlacementPresident Biden announced on Wednesday his proposal to invest $2 trillion over eight years to bolster the economy, create jobs, and shore up supply chains.  The plan earmarks $300 billion for small businesses and manufacturing, with initiatives to bring more manufacturing stateside, update tax incentives, expand research and development, and install funding programs, among others.  In his speech addressing his plan, he noted the significance of investing in American-made products as well as groups traditionally left out of…
• Biden's big infrastructure plan hits McConnell, GOP blockade Republicans in Congress are making the politically brazen bet that it’s more advantageous to oppose President Joe Biden’s ambitious rebuild America agenda than to lend support for the costly $2.3 trillion undertaking for roads, bridges and other infrastructure investments. Much the way Republicans provided no votes for the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, they plan to sit on the sidelines for this next big lift by the White House, forcing Democrats to take full ownership of the massive package of…
• On Easter weekend, President Nelson opens conference with invitation to clear ‘the old debris in our lives’ President Russell M. Nelson speaks during the morning session of the 191st Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City on Saturday, April 3, 2021. | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Russell M. Nelson issued a specific invitation Saturday morning about how to listen to the 191st Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as he welcomed a global broadcast audience to the Easter weekend…