Route Fifty
By Daniel C. Vock
JANUARY 11, 2022
In some states, leaders have already selected point people to help guide spending with billions in new, federal infrastructure dollars. As vice president, Joe Biden got the job of being the point person for overseeing massive federal spending in a 2009 stimulus bill. Apparently, he thought a position like this was a good idea, because, as president, he appointed an infrastructure czar to oversee the massive federal spending in his new $1.2 trillion infrastructure law. And now, his administration is asking states to do the same. Hello and welcome back to Route Fifty's Infrastructure Update, I'm Dan Vock. This week, we’ll be taking a look at the Biden administration’s push to get states to set up formal oversight mechanisms for the influx of infrastructure cash they’re about to receive. The call came in a letter that Mitch Landrieu, the former New Orleans mayor who is Biden’s senior advisor and infrastructure implementation coordinator, sent to all governors. Landrieu said the system of having state-level point people had worked well when the Obama administration rolled out its stimulus package, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. For that effort, the National Governors Association helped develop a network of state recovery coordinators, Landrieu noted.
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