Gov. Reeves: Infrastructure Plan Looks More Like a Green New Deal

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REEVES: “But as you mentioned, this plan spends $110 billion on roads and bridges and spends more than that on the combination of Amtrak and public transit. And what’s even worse, it spends $100 billion on clean water, which Mississippi could certainly use, but it spends more than that on subsidizing electric vehicles. $155 billion to subsidize electric vehicles. That is a political statement. It’s not a statement on trying to improve our infrastructure in America. So it looks more like the Green New Deal than it looks like an infrastructure plan. But if the Biden administration will do what the President has said he wants to do, which is work with Republicans, I believe we can come up with a plan that we can afford, one that we can pay for, and one that truly invests in the infrastructure needs of this country. And there is no doubt that Mississippi, like virtually every other state, could use federal support. Infrastructure is a core function of government. It is something that the federal government, the state government and local government should spend more of our resources on. But we don’t have to hike taxes by $2 trillion to do it."