-It is the largest American investment in jobs since World War II.

It will create millions of jobs, well-paid jobs, the US president said at a performance in Pittsburgh.

The initiative must take place immediately and will also help the United States in the global competitive situation with China, Biden emphasizes.

Eight years of construction project

During his speech, the President highlights the importance of the trade union movement for the prosperity of the American middle class.

During his time in the White House, Biden has gathered support from the unions and promises that they will play an important role in the upcoming construction, which will last for eight years.

The eight-year plan, which is worth the equivalent of SEK 17,500 billion, also allocates funds to expand the network for high-speed broadband so that it reaches the entire country.

Investments in schools as well as expanded and improved power lines - with the aim set on renewable, clean energy - are also included, reports the public service channel NPR.

The plan, called Build Back Better, is presented in the steel and working-class city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Democrat Joe Biden launched his White House initiative.

In the media, it is described as a future signature legislation, if the White House succeeds in pushing it through Congress.

Consensus in Congress?

It is not completely impossible.

Infrastructure investments are one of the few areas for which cross-party support is considered.

It was also something that many thought the representative and real estate magnate Donald Trump would do during his time as president.

But the investment is breathtakingly large, worth more than the latest covid aid package, which may deter some conservative politicians.

And it is doubtful whether Biden's financing plan, an increase in corporation tax from 21 to 28 percent, falls into good soil with the Republicans.

It does not seem to do so with the party's minority leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, who describes the package as a "Trojan horse".

"Inside the Trojan horse, there will be additional borrowed money and huge tax increases on all productive parts of our economy," he said, according to several US media outlets.