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Biden’s Infrastructure Proposal Is a Giant Boondoggle

It sets aside $400 billion for long-term health care for the elderly but only $115 billion for roads, highways, and bridges.
Biden's Infrastructure Proposal Is a Giant Boondoggle

President Biden has unveiled a $2.2 trillion grab bag of liberal spending projects creatively branded as an “infrastructure” initiative. The words “invest” and “investment” may appear 160 times in the American Jobs Plan, yet its largest proposal is $400 billion for long-term care for the elderly and disabled, which—whatever its merits—has nothing to do with infrastructure.

Brian Riedl is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

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