Transport Topics
By Eugene Mulero
June 20, 2024
During a recent media blitz touting the reopening of the Port of Baltimore just months after a high-profile bridge collapse, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg pointed to myriad benefits linked to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
The infrastructure law is central to President Joe Biden’s domestic policy agenda, and its 2021 enactment marked a rare bipartisan achievement in a politically polarized Washington.
“[One] big thing that was on our agenda the moment we came through the doors [was] to get a historic infrastructure bill passed — something previous administrations had talked about,” Buttigieg said during a television interview June 12. “Everybody knew we needed it; nobody could get it done. Now, not only is the bill done, but the money is actually moving. The projects are getting done. We’re at 54,000 projects and counting from a streetscape in a town somewhere that can be done in the summer to some of the biggest infrastructure of our lifetime.”
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