Biden’s bet on Big Government
Apr 30, 2021
3 minutes
By Alana Abramson and Brian Bennett
PHOTOGRAPH BY PATRICK SEMANSKY
The Brief is reported by Madeleine Carlisle, Suyin Haynes, Jeffrey Kluger, Sanya Mansoor, Ciara Nugent, Billy Perrigo, Madeline Roache and Olivia B. Waxman
RESIDENT JOE BIDEN WAS HUDDLING WITH aides in the Oval Office in late April, preparing for a Zoom tour of Proterra, an electric bus and battery plant in Greenville, S.C. The company does the kind of eco-friendly manufacturing that Biden hopes will balloon if Congress passes his $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, which includes nearly $80 billion in federal investment in these types of clean-energy
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