Biden proposes $6tn budget to boost infrastructure, education and climate

President lays out plans to drive government spending to its highest sustained levels since the second world war

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Joe Biden set out a $6tn budget proposal on Friday that, if passed, would fund a sweeping overhaul of US infrastructure and pour money into education and climate action, while driving government spending to its highest sustained levels since the second world war.

The president's first budget is largely a political document, and faces months of difficult negotiations in Congress where Republicans are already balking at the scale of his spending plans. But it clearly sets out Biden's ambition to remake the US after the coronavirus pandemic.