Biden touts infrastructure bill as a response to extreme weather events

President Joe Biden praised his bipartisan infrastructure agreement as part of federal government's climate relief plan, as record-breaking temperatures and wildfire season continue to ravage the Western United States.At Wednesday's meeting, Biden stated that we also need to invest in our future. "That's why the bipartisan infrastructure investment of approximately $50 billion... will build resilience to extreme weather conditions like wildfires. $50 billionBiden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and more than a dozen federal officers spoke to Western governors at the White House's mixed-in-person and virtual roundtable. Gavin Newsom, Kate Brown (D.Calif.), Spencer Cox and Mark Gordon (R.Wyo. ), Jay Inslee, Michelle Lujan Grisham(D-N.M.), Jared Polis and Steve Sisolaks (D-Nev.).