Some $200 billion was approved by the Biden administration for 23,000 infrastructures in 4,500 jurisdictions around the country in 2022.
The spending was authorized by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), a $1.2 trillion spending program passed by Congress in 2021 to fund transportation and road projects, broadband access, clean water, and renewal of the nation’s electric grid.
“That’s about getting it done and going fast,” said Mitchell Landrieu, senior adviser to President Joe Biden and infrastructure coordinator at the White House.
Landrieu, a former mayor of New Orleans, touted progress in implementing the program in remarks to the American Public Transportation Association convention in Washington on March 13….