Biden wants trillions for infrastructure, but a big hurdle will remain: Spending the cash

President Biden wants trillions for infrastructure, but a big hurdle will remain: Spending the cash.

to entitled taxpayers, for example, because the IRS lacks the resources to quickly process them.

Democrats and allied groups are encouraged by the Biden administration’s experience. The Cabinet is stocked with former mayors and governors who have dealt with these issues firsthand, as well as many veterans of prior administrations like White House chief of staff Ron Klain, who was Biden's chief of staff when Biden was vice president.

A cautionary tale is the 2009 stimulus, whose spending initiatives Biden oversaw as vice president. Then-President Barack Obama promoted the bill as being full of"shovel ready" projects that could quickly get people working.failed to get past opposition from Republican governors, who killed transportation projects in Florida and New Jersey.

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