President Joe Biden

Biden unveils sweeping $2 trillion infrastructure plan

The White House has released an outline of President Joe Biden’s vision for infrastructure: a $2 trillion, 10-year American Jobs Plan that includes upgrading transportation infrastructure as well as renewing the electric grid, high-speed broadband to all parts of the U.S. and delivering clean drinking water.

Biden envisions the plan fully paid for within 15 years – but only if he is able to pass an adjoining plan to increase corporate taxes from the current 21% passed under the Trump...

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What freight carriers should know about Biden’s transportation review

An executive order issued by President Joe Biden has the potential to become one of the most important government documents in years directed at carriers and their customers working within the country’s transportation sector.

Key among the provisions of the “Executive Order on America’s Supply Chains,” issued Feb. 24 is a “sectoral supply chain assessment” of six industrial sectors, including transportation. It requires the secretary of transportation, consulting with the heads of the...

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FMCSA chief Joshi: Drivers will take hit from automated trucks

How the move toward driverless trucks will affect the truck driver workforce is a challenge that must be addressed whether the timeline toward full automation ends up short or long, according to the nation’s top truck safety regulator.

“We can argue about scope and timeline, but what we can’t argue about is that this a reality: There will be a major shift in workforce,” said Meera Joshi, acting administrator at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), speaking Wednesday at the...

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More Postal Service money could revive Workhorse mail truck bid

Seventeen House Democrats introduced a bill Monday that would give the U.S. Postal Service an additional $6 billion to assure next-generation mail trucks run on electricity.

If the bill passes, it could revive a failed bid by electric delivery van maker Workhorse Group (NASDAQ: WKHS) to win the initial contract for Next Generation Delivery Vehicles.

Some key Democrats back the legislation. They include Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon, who chairs the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and...

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Biden expected to sign LTL driver pension relief package

Legislation bailing out financially troubled multiemployer pension plans – including a plan covering thousands of employees and retirees from LTL carriers Yellow and ABF Freight – could be signed into law by President Joe Biden as early as this week.

The Butch Lewis Pension Plan Relief Act of 2021 was included in the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package that was approved on Saturday by the U.S. Senate along party lines, 50-49. The package is expected to be taken up by the U.S. House of...

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Biden and CDC Want the US People To Wear Masks

  • President Joe Biden has criticised the lifting of mask requirements in the states of Texas and Mississippi, calling it “Neanderthal thinking”.
  • Masks, social distancing and other measures were still important, despite the role vaccines were playing in containing the pandemic.

  • Texas and Mississippi will also allow all businesses to open at full capacity. Other states have announced a relaxation of some rules.

A recent news article published in the CNN and BBC reveals that President Joe Biden...

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Republicans to White House: Limit infrastructure spending to roads and bridges

As the Biden administration looks ahead to the “recovery” portion of its Build Back Better plan while the $1.9 billion COVID-19 relief bill is considered in the Senate, Republicans are drawing a line across the road when it comes to infrastructure investment.

After a White House meeting Thursday that included President Joe Biden and Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Rep. Sam Graves, R-Missouri, the ranking member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/republicans-to-white-house:-limit-infrastructure-spending-to-roads-and-bridges

Medically Necessary: Stimulus bill has billions for vaccine distribution, executive orders signal supply chain focus and Merck helps J&J produce vaccine

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This is an excerpt from the March 2, 2021 edition of Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletter. Subscribe here.

Good afternoon. Medically Necessary is a newsletter by Matt Blois about the health care supply chain — how we get drugs, devices and medical supplies to health care providers and patients.

Stimulus bill has billions to boost vaccine distribution

The COVID-19 stimulus bill recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives includes billions of dollars for the vaccine...

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Teamsters see pro-labor proposal leveling playing field at XPO

Legislation that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters asserts will make collective bargaining more fair at XPO Logistics [NYSE: XPO] and other trucking companies has the potential to gain traction in the current Congress – and it has the full support of President Joe Biden.

The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act was introduced in February and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said he plans to take it up for consideration next week. The bill was approved by the House when it...

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Biden orders review of transportation sector

An executive order to be signed Wednesday by President Joe Biden includes a one-year review of transportation networks as well as a review of supply chains for four products considered critical in addressing national emergencies.

As FreightWaves reported earlier this month, Biden planned to use an executive order to make good on a campaign promise to review critical supply chains and reduce American dependence on imports for pandemic-related equipment and materials.

According to a fact sheet...

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