Route Fifty Today
By Kery Murakami
JANUARY 30, 2022
The transportation secretary said the Biden administration will weigh liberal priorities in awarding funding, but that it will take into account other factors as well.
Pressed over whether the Biden administration will push a social agenda through the $1.2 trillion infrastructure law approved last year, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg assured the nation’s governors the department will consider other factors in handing out grant dollars, such as whether states will make streets safer.
Republican Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson asked Buttigieg about the issue at the National Governors Association’s winter conference in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, questioning whether states with fewer union workers will lose out to more unionized states.
“I know that the president has an appreciation for unions, and that there are some preferences I understand in the bill for union work being done,” Hutchinson, the association’s president, told Buttigieg.
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