The Transportation Department and the state are teaming up on the program, which aims to prevent a repeat of the supply-chain crisis by bolstering ports and other sources of bottlenecks.
President Biden went to the Capitol to detail a compromise on social safety net and climate legislation, but he couldn’t break the liberal blockade on another priority, infrastructure.
As paid family leave and other priorities were taken out of the president’s plan, the largest piece became a $555 billion plan to fight climate change.
Their opposition meant that House leaders were unlikely to be able to muster enough votes to pass the bill on Thursday as they had hoped, despite President Biden’s entreaties.
By a 5-to-3 vote, the justices lifted a stay of execution that had been imposed by a federal appeals court in a challenge to the state’s lethal injection protocols.