Municipalities are hiring lobbyists to secure funding even as the Biden administration tries to make the money more accessible
The Washington Post
By Yeganeh Torbati, Jonathan O'Connell and Tony Romm
February 1, 2022
Over the past decade, the small coastal city of Largo, Fla., has borrowed tens of millions of dollars from the state, partly to build piecemeal protections against rising sea waters that threaten flooding and major damage to the community, which sits squarely between the Gulf of Mexico and Tampa Bay. It hasn’t been enough: A recent budget enumerated nearly $77 million in unfunded projects, including protecting an industrial site from hurricane damage and paving with materials that better absorb water. And so last year, as members of Congress debated a historic infrastructure bill that would fund hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of new spending on roads, bridges, pipes, ports and Internet connections across the country, Largo officials did something they had never done before: They hired lobbyists in Washington to advocate on their behalf.
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