ICYMI: Axios: White House Says Biden Agenda Sparked $1 Trillion in Economic Investment
November 25, 2024
New reporting from Axios highlights how President Biden’s economic agenda continues to make a historic impact by growing the economy from the bottom up and middle out. Under the Biden-Harris administration’s leadership, over a trillion dollars in private sector money is powering the clean energy economy, which in turn is creating jobs, leading a U.S. manufacturing renaissance, and lowering costs for hardworking Americans. Thanks to President Biden and Vice President Harris, the industries of the future are ensuring the future is made in America.
Axios: Exclusive: White House says Biden agenda sparked $1 trillion in economic investment
By: Courtenay Brown
- Expect the White House to tout a new milestone on Monday: $1 trillion of private sector money put toward clean technology and manufacturing — investments officials say are a result of Biden-era legislation.
- Why it matters: President-elect Trump is set to preside over an economy where parts of Biden’s agenda live on — in the form of unfinished semiconductor factories or clean-tech projects.
- Trump might like the economic activity spurred by such projects, but he has threatened to roll back the laws passed under Biden that incentivized and funded them.
- “The progress we’ve made … represents only a fraction of the full impact of this agenda,” White House deputy chief of staff Natalie Quillian writes in the memo.
- “If future Administrations continue to implement at the pace we have, people across the country will enjoy the benefits of safer water, cleaner air, faster internet, and smoother commutes.”
- “These investments in industries of the future are ensuring the future is made in America, by American workers,” according to a statement to be released by President Biden.
- The intrigue: The huge sums of private-sector money pouring into the economy — and the popularity of the legislation’s tax credits and more — might make it less appealing to roll back at least one key aspect of Biden’s agenda.