President Joe Biden to visit Cleveland, Ohio on February 17, 2022....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader
By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher
CLEVELAND, Ohio- President Joe Biden will visit Cleveland, Ohio and neighboring Lorain on Thurs., Feb 17 when he travels to Northeast Ohio to promote his $1.2 trillion infrastructure package, legislation sanctioned by Congress and signed into law by the president in November of 2021. It is the president's second visit to the largely Black major American city of some 372,000 people since last year when he visited Cuyahoga County Community College to champion his American Rescue Plan.
"On Thursday, February 17, the president will travel to Cleveland and Lorain, Ohio to discuss how the bipartisan infrastructure law delivers for the American people by rebuilding roads and bridges, upgrading water systems, cleaning up the environment, and creating good-paying, union jobs. This trip will be pooled press," the White House said in a statement.
The president is expected to land via Air force One at the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport on Thursday and will ultimately travel to the Shipyards restaurant in Lorain to meet up with prominent Democratic dignitaries and give televised remarks.
The infrastructure legislation that brings the former vice president to Cleveland this week allocates roughly $60 billion to Ohio to fund local and state government projects, and another $10 billion to fund highway projects This is coupled with $1 billion that is slated for the Great Lakes Restoration Project.
Supported especially by the progressive wing of Congress, particularly in the House of Representatives where Democrats are in control, the legislative measure includes significant infrastructure investments, including relative to bridges, roads, bridges, railways, drinking water, and broadband internet in poor and rural communities in particular.
“Finally. Infrastructure week,” Biden said in response to passage of the infrastructure legislation late last year, alluding to the failure by his predecessor, former president Donald Trump, to get mass infrastructure bills through Congress.
The former vice president under former president Barack Obama who ousted Trump from the White House in 2020 with a promise of bringing calm and economic stability to a country burdened by a partisan divide and never-ending congressional bickering, President Biden has said that his infrastructure deal is the first of its kind and the first time in history that Congress has approved such a massive investment. It comes behind passage of a massive stimulus package by Congress last March that President Biden championed, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, also called the COVID-19 Stimulus Package or American Rescue Plan It is Biden's $1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill, legislation passed in response to the economic, physical and other effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has claimed the lives of nearly a million Americans, and even more worldwide.
The American Rescue Plan builds upon many of the measures in the CARES Act from March 2020 and in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021.
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