4 Overlooked Issues with The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill

There has been a lot of controversy with the new Infrastructure Bill that has recently been proposed.

People have taken to social media to express their views. Some say that the $1.2 trillion plan is fantastic, and it will help America by providing jobs and aid in the battle against climate change. Others have criticized the plan, stating that it is another Green New Deal: a large, seemingly innocent plan with a hidden agenda.

At a glance, the bill seems pretty straightforward: Republicans and Democrats came together and made a compromise, narrowing the budget down from $4 trillion to $1.2 trillion.

According to multiple sources, the text of the bill has recently been completed, totaling 2,702 pages. The full text has recently been released.

This seems like a great plan politically: Republicans and Democrats worked together to benefit the people they represent. There is so much focus on the social infrastructure aspect, that there seems to be very little information on what the trillion dollars will actually be spent on.

President Biden has stated that this project will create many jobs for construction workers. This begs the question: How exactly?

After hours of research, I found four concerning incongruities involving the bill. I mostly focused on the finances, since the money involved in the bill will directly impact the nation’s construction companies.

Union Jobs: In a statement made by President Biden concerning the project, he states, “[The bill] will put Americans to work in good-paying, union jobs repairing our roads and bridges.”

As a non-union construction worker who makes a living repairing roads and bridges, I was curious about this statement. Will the company I work for not be invited to bid on bridge projects because we are not unionized? According to an article by ENR, only about 12.7% of the private construction workforce is unionized. Will the remaining 87.3% of honest, employee-friendly companies not be invited to bid on construction projects?

President Biden has not been shy about pushing “social infrastructure”. If this is such a concern, why have there been no conversations about bolstering DBE…

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