Infrastructure Package Completion May Hinge on Elections
Date Posted: November 14, 2023
Posted In: News, People,
From Reuters: Two years after President Joe Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law, his administration has launched 40,000 projects aimed at rebuilding America, according to his infrastructure czar, Mitch Landrieu.
The White House wants Biden to gain maximum credit for the projects to help him in his fight for re-election, with a year to go until Election Day.
Landrieu spent more than an hour with reporters on Thursday to talk up the benefits of the infrastructure law ahead of the Nov. 15 anniversary. A former mayor of New Orleans, Landrieu is expected to step down soon after working a year beyond his original pledge to spend one year leading the infrastructure effort.<
Landrieu, barred by the Hatch Act from saying much about politics, summed up the choice he feels voters will be faced with between Biden and a Republican opponent:
“Somebody’s going to be blowing smoke. Somebody’s going to bringing receipts,” he said.
Biden regularly travels to sites that will benefit from the law, including a visit to his home town of Wilmington, Delaware, on Monday to tout Amtrak funding, and a trip to the Brent Spence Bridge spanning Ohio and Kentucky. The administration has put signs at construction projects across the country boasting about Biden’s role in securing the funding.