President Joe Biden announced Thursday $3 billion toward identifying and replacing theĀ nationā€™s unsafeĀ leadĀ pipes,Ā a long-sought move to improve public health and clean drinking waterĀ that will be paidĀ for by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Biden unveiled the new fundingĀ in North Carolina, a battleground state Democrats have lost to Donald Trump in the past two presidential electionsĀ but are feeling more bullish toward due to an abortion measure on the stateā€™s ballot this November.

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The Environmental Protection Agency will invest $3 billion in theĀ leadĀ pipe effort annually through 2026, Administrator Michael Regan told reporters. He said that nearly 50% of the funding will go to disadvantaged communities ā€“ and a fact sheet from the Biden administration noted that ā€œlead exposure disproportionately affects communities of color and low-income families.ā€

    • UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works
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      Biden: Adds on to the amount heā€™s already given to replace lead pipes; more than any other president has done

      The Uncanny Observer: Yeah but it should have been done 20 years ago so Iā€™m mad šŸ˜ 

      Edit: this brings the total up to 9 billion. Still not enough for everything, but how much has every other president gave? Be a little happy

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        Youā€™re right. I need to really celebrate those incremental improvements. I mean, not like weā€™re gonna get anything more out of democrats. Just whatever they need to still be able to say ā€œweā€™re not as bad as the other dudeā€.

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          Unironically, yes. Big jumps donā€™t happen without violent revolution and that rarely works out well. Progress happens by baby steps. If youā€™re waiting for everything to get better all at once, you will be angry the rest of your life.

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            Big jumps donā€™t happen without violent revolution and that rarely works out well.

            Explain to me how the United States was created

            George Washington did not politely ask for independence.

            He and others murdered people for it. A lot of people. And then he won. And now here we all are.