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American Jobs Plan, By the Numbers

By Robert Mangas on April 1, 2021
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On March 31, 2021, President Biden released details on the American Jobs Plan, which provides funding for infrastructure, clean energy, innovation and R&D, manufacturing and workplace support, and the caregiving economy. The package also includes revenue increase proposals to partially offset the new initiatives. Here is a summary of the amounts proposed in each major category:

INFRASTRUCTURE AND CLEAN ENERGY
Transportation Infrastructure $ 621 billion
Roads and Bridges $ 115 billion
Public transit $ 85 billion
Passenger and Freight Rail $ 80 billion
Road safety $ 20 billion
Electric vehicles $ 174 billion
Airports, ports, waterways $ 42 billion
Reconnect neighborhoods $ 20 billion
Large projects $ 25 billion
Resilience $ 50 billion
Other $ 10 billion
Water, Electricity, Broadband $ 311 billion
Drinking water $ 111 billion
EPA state fund ($45 billion)
Water systems ($56 billion)
PFAS ($10 billion)
Broadband $ 100 billion
Electric Power $ 100 billion
Electric grid
Extend clean energy ITC, PTC; establish EECES
Reclamation ($16 billion)
Brownfield, Superfund ($5 billion)
Carbon capture and sequestration
Civilian Conservation Corps ($10 billion)
Homes and Buildings $ 378 billion
Retrofit Homes and Buildings $ 213 billion
Affordable rental housing
NHIA tax credits ($20 billion)
Zoning incentives
Public housing ($40 billion)
Clean Energy Accelerator ($27 billion)
Education and Child Care Facilities $ 137 billion
Public School modernization ($ 100 billion)
Community Colleges ($ 12 billion)
Child Care ($25 billion)
VA Hospitals $ 18 billion
Federal Buildings $ 10 billion
SUBTOTAL, INFRASTRUCTURE AND CLEAN ENERGY $ 1.310 trillion
CAREGIVING ECONOMY
Expand Medicaid Home and Community-based Care $ 400 billion
INNOVATION AND R&D
Future technologies $ 180 billion
NSF $ 50 billion
Rural, additional R&D $ 30 billion
Research labs $ 40 billion
Climate R&D $ 35 billion
HBCUs/MSIs $ 25 billion
Retool and revitalize manufacturing $ 300 billion
Commerce supply chains $ 50 billion
Semiconductors $ 50 billion
Medical countermeasures $ 30 billion
Clean energy (EV, nuclear) $ 46 billion
Regional innovation hubs $ 20 billion
NIST $ 14 billion
Manufacturing extension partnerships $ 2 billion
Capital access, sec. 48C $ 52 billion
Small business incubators $ 31 billion
Rural Partnership program $ 5 billion
Workforce Development $ 100 billion
Dislocated Workers program $ 40 billion
Underserved communities $ 12 billion
Apprenticeships, STEM $ 48 billion
SUBTOTAL, INNOVATION AND R&D $ 580 billion
TOTAL $ 2.290 trillion

LABOR REFORMS

  • Enact the Protecting the Right to Organize Act
  • Apply labor standards to infrastructure, clean energy funding recipients
  • Increased penalties for workplace safety and health violations

REVENUES

  • Raise Corporate Rate to 28%
  • Increase Global Minimum Tax to 21%
  • Global agreement on minimum corporate tax
  • Limit Corporate Inversions
  • Deny Offshoring deductions, create Onshoring credit
  • Repeal Foreign Derived Intangible Income deduction
  • 15% minimum on corporate book income
  • Eliminate fossil fuel tax incentives
  • Increase corporate enforcement
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Rob is a shareholder in the firm’s Federal Government Law & Policy group. He has represented clients before Congress and federal agencies from a variety of industries and in multiple policy areas, including trade, energy, environment, health care, biotechnology, transportation, financial services, information…

Rob is a shareholder in the firm’s Federal Government Law & Policy group. He has represented clients before Congress and federal agencies from a variety of industries and in multiple policy areas, including trade, energy, environment, health care, biotechnology, transportation, financial services, information technology, artificial intelligence, manufacturing, tax, education, pensions, defense, and foreign relations. Rob has a depth of understanding of the rules of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, and he has deep experience in legislative drafting. He previously served as chief of staff to U.S. Senator Wendell Ford, the former Senate Majority Whip.

Rob is a member of the firm’s Tariff Task Force, a multidisciplinary initiative that draws on the firm’s global platform to guide our clients through what comes next in regards to tariffs, including tariff refund matters, tax, litigation, and M&A activity spurred by these global shifts.

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