DeFazio Blasts Bipartisan Senate Infrastructure Plan Biden Backs
- Transport panel chair opposes deal supported by party leaders
- Labels deal status quo on safety, highway funding and climate
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Representative Peter DeFazio blasted the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure deal, saying there are “extraordinary deficiencies” in the plan that is backed by President Joe Biden.
DeFazio, the Democratic chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said Tuesday during a press conference organized by Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety that the Senate plan is “essentially status quo on safety, and status quo on highway building and will not deal with fossil fuel pollution and carbon reduction.”