

The announcement of the president’s visit came as a welcome surprise, according to Crystal Lake Mayor Haig Haleblian. Last week, the president toured a La Crosse, Wisconsin, transit facility and delivered remarks on the infrastructure deal. The president has made two other recent visits in the Midwest.īiden traveled to Traverse City, Michigan Saturday as part of an effort to highlight the nation's progress against COVID-19 and promote the infrastructure plan he negotiated with a group of senators. "We passed an infrastructure bill two years ago in Illinois and as a result of that the federal infrastructure bill, when it passes, if it passes, when it passes, means that we will be shovel ready with our matching funds in order to take advantage of the federal dollars that will come from an infrastructure bill," he said Tuesday. Pritzker said he looks forward to talking to Biden about the American Families Plan and noted that the infrastructure plan "will be a big victory for us here in Illinois." “I hope that’s something he’ll mention, as well as investing in education, which I think is really important as well.” Suzanne Ness, a Democrat whose district covers part of Crystal Lake.

“We have parts of McHenry County that still don’t have broadband,” said state Rep. And he'll speak about his plans to make permanent the expansion in the child tax credit and expanded health care premium subsidies from the COVID-19 aid bill. He’ll also highlight his proposals to establish a clean energy standard and invest in home care for seniors and affordable housing.

He'll make the case that investments in such programs are needed to maintain America's economic growth and competitiveness globally.
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On Wednesday, the Democratic president will highlight the rest, including his plans to invest in child care and workforce development programs and provide two years of free community college, universal prekindergarten and paid family and medical leave. Wednesday's visit will include a focus on the portions of his agenda that didn't make it into the bipartisan infrastructure deal that Biden signed onto in June, which includes hundreds of billions of dollars of investments in roads and bridges, transit systems and broadband, but constitutes only a fraction of the $4 trillion in spending Biden has proposed as part of a broader plan to reinvigorate the economy and boost the middle class. Biden has also toured the Midwest recently promoting the need for a deal to help the nation’s infrastructure. The American Families Plan focuses primarily on children and education. In Hunt for Infrastructure Deal, Every Dem Has Leverage Why is Biden coming to Crystal Lake?Īccording to the White House, Biden's trip aims to highlight the benefits of the American Families Plan.
