Joe Biden has enough parliamentary experience - a third of a century on the Senate benches plus eight years of vice-presidency under Obama - to know that passing his ambitious "Green New Deal" would not be easy.
However, it took a decisive step this weekend.
On March 31, the President of the United States set the bar very high by presenting his investment plan aimed at
"making America a carbon-free economy by 2050 and the world leader in modern infrastructure"
.
Promising
"millions of unionized jobs that pay well",
the tenant of the White House then asked Congress to vote an envelope of approximately $ 2 trillion in spending over eight years.
Following a procedural vote in the Senate on Saturday, which ends discussion of the bill and opens the door to its adoption by the Upper House, the plan no longer provides for "only" 1.2 trillion dollars. investment dollars.
Of which 550 billion
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