“There’s a lot of talk about disappointments for things we haven’t gotten done—we’re going to get a lot of that done, I might add,” said President Joe Biden Friday to start a speech on the bipartisan infrastructure bill he signed into law in November. “But this is something that we did get done.”
The infrastructure bill along with the American Rescue Plan—a $1.9 trillion COVID relief spending plan that passed along party lines in the spring—represent the two legislative achievements of Biden’s first year in office.
