In its dimensions alone, the package that is on its way through Congress shows the huge need for renewal and modernization of the infrastructure in the United States.
For years underfunded and hardly maintained, it should and will finally be adjusted to the needs of a modern society and a high-performance economy under the conditions of climate change.
What his predecessors announced but never really tackled will become a reality under President Joe Biden.
This is a great success for the Democrats, especially since the bill, for which a majority of the Senators has now voted, is the fruit of bipartisan cooperation. Biden strived for this impartiality from the start; in order to achieve it, he has sensibly compromised his original plan here and there.
To read from this success that a new spirit of
bipartisanship is entering
American politics would be wrong. Republican senators agreed because their home states will also get a large piece of the cake from Washington - normal interest-political behavior that cannot be transferred to other fields, especially not to those that are ideologically mined. The economy will benefit from the legislation - the "better reconstruction" of America, the core goal of the Biden administration, is making some headway.