Now that I'm looking at the headline again though it actually doesn't even seem like that much money. Perhaps we've been desensitized to money printing lately. Yes, Biden does want to get another bill through once this passes, possibly in the neighborhood of $3 trillion, but the amounts we're looking at are much lower than the $6 trillion he was asking Congress for earlier in his Presidency.
There are a few things that irk me about the bill. First, and this may just be me nitpicking is that it sets aside $66 billion for Amtrak, while only allotting $15 billion for EV recharging infrastructure. To me this just shows how the government chooses to throw money at old problems rather than pave the way for the future. America was literally a pioneer when it came to railroad transportation and now they've fallen far behind.
It's just a shame how rather than being the pioneers again and investing in the future they'd rather pile money into old technology and even steal from new innovations. Not EVs, they're investing in that but part of the plan for funding this bill introduces a new tax on crypto companies...