How about $12 billion to build subways And trolleys
Would be great, but this was approved by congress.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The money, provided under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, is aimed at maintaining jobs in communities that have been defined by the auto industry and is also seen as an effort by the White House to respond to a strike threat by unionized autoworkers.
The funding would “further that goal by creating auto manufacturing jobs here at home and helping companies avoid painful plant closings — and to retool, reboot, and rehire in the same factories and communities with high wages,” he said.
Former President Donald J. Trump, who is the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, has seized on autoworkers’ unease about the switch to electric vehicles in an effort to court the U.A.W.
I have traveled across the country, meeting displaced workers who’ve had to pick up and move their families when plants shut down recently in Belvidere, Ill., Lordstown, Ohio, and Romeo, Mich.”
As part of his climate agenda, Mr. Biden is combining federal investments with an aggressive new regulatory proposal to try to ensure that two-thirds of all new cars sold in the United States are all-electric by 2032, up from about 7 percent today.
Both the union and the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, the auto industry’s largest lobbying group, have criticized the proposed regulation, with the carmakers saying it would lead to soaring costs for companies and consumers.
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