US President Joe Biden delivers a speech in Crystal Lake, Illinois, on July 7, 2021. (Photo: AFP/VNA)

The first plan, worth around 1 trillion USD, will fund massive rebuilding of 32,000 kilometers of roads and 10,000 bridges as well as removing harmful lead pipes from water systems and expanding high-speed Internet to rural areas.

The second, potentially far larger bill, will expand public education, childcare and other costly areas of what Biden calls "human infrastructure." Biden detailed plans for universal free pre-school and two years of free post-school community college, making a total of 14 years of state-funded education instead of 12.