McClatchy DC Bureau
BY ALEX ROARTY AND BRYAN LOWRY
JANUARY 31, 2022
President Joe Biden and Republican governors rarely see eye to eye on anything. Will the new infrastructure law be any different? Federal officials and state governments have begun an ambitious partnership this year to implement a trillion-dollar upgrade to the nation’s infrastructure, money made available last year when Biden signed into law a new spending bill that Congress passed with bipartisan support. It’s a complicated, multi-faceted process, officials say. And it’s one everyone agrees will require cooperation between the Democratic-led government and 28 Republican governors, many of whom will have (along with their Democratic counterparts) broad discretion about where to spend the money they receive from the federal government.
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