The Big Deal: Buttigieg Compares Biden's Infrastructure Law to The New Deal

The Big Deal: Buttigieg Compares Biden’s Infrastructure Law to The New Deal

https://www.politicususa.com/2024/10/21/the-big-deal-buttigieg-compares-bidens-infrastructure-law-to-the-new-deal.html/amp

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One of the most significant achievements of the Biden-Harris administration is one about which most Americans know little: The administration is radically transforming U.S. infrastructure, and on Monday they announced an additional 4.2 billion dollars in infrastructure grants to fund 44 projects across the country that aim to improve safety, quality of life, support supply chains, and create good-paying jobs.

“I think it’s important to reflect on all of the consequences of that failure to invest that we have seen over the years. It’s led to everything from infrequent and unreliable bus service to limited passenger rail options to ports and airports unable to keep up with demand to detours due to weight limited bridges and, of course, roads in disrepair. Addressing that, finally addressing that, is part of why President Biden’s infrastructure law is a big deal, so much so that I like to call it the big deal, because I think it rivals the New Deal in its impact,“Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said on a Monday call with reporters in which PoliticusUSA took part.

“We’ve got more than 63,000 projects just on the infrastructure side alone, in every state in the US, and some of them are very specific, narrow scope and intersection being realigned a sidewalk connecting parts of town that used to be disconnected,” Buttigieg said. “These are projects that together can create hundreds of thousands of good jobs, many of them available, whether you have a college degree or not.”

It’s true, these projects are not only improving safety, but providing good paying jobs. Yet many Americans, including many with those jobs, are unaware of the connection.

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