President Biden will host True Infrastructure Week to highlight the historic progress America has made on infrastructure during his administration.
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Here are some of Biden’s infrastructure accomplishments, according to a White House fact sheet:
- Improved more than 257,000 miles of roadways and initiated nearly 13,000 bridge repair projects to make our roads safer and reconnect communities across the country;
- Provide funding to deploy nearly 3,000 low-emission, zero-emission, American-made buses and fund more than 5,000 clean school buses in 600 communities across the country, prioritizing support for disadvantaged areas;
- Funding more than 450 port and waterway projects to strengthen supply chains, speed the movement of goods, reduce costs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions;
- Investments have been made in more than 300 airport terminal projects to modernize and expand terminals, with more than 100 terminals under construction or completed;
- Launched more than 4,100 projects to help communities become more resilient to threats such as climate change and cyberattacks;
- Provided financing for more than 1,400 drinking water and wastewater treatment projects nationwide;
- Deployed funds to help replace up to 1.7 million toxic lead pipes;
- Removed hazardous fuel materials from nearly 15 million acres through infrastructure laws and other sources to protect communities from wildfires;
- Funded nearly 500 projects for water reclamation, storage, conservation, desalination and other purposes to improve drought resilience in the West;
- Provided funding to more than 200 states, tribes and territories and launched more than 60 projects to make the U.S. grid more resilient and reliable and deliver cheaper, cleaner electricity—the largest in transmission and distribution infrastructure A single investment in American history.
- Enable more than 23 million low-income families to receive free or discounted high-speed Internet service through the Affordable Connectivity Plan;
- Funding 12,000 miles of mid-mile high-speed network infrastructure in 370 counties to improve the security, resiliency, and affordability of our nation’s regional networks;
- Provided funding to more than 280 tribal governments to connect more than 65,000 tribal households to high-speed internet;
- Enact new rules to expose internet spam fees so 300 million Americans can purchase home and mobile internet plans that best meet their needs and budgets;
- Plugged nearly 8,000 abandoned oil and gas wells to address legacy pollution problems;
- Allocate funds to 95 previously unfunded Superfund site projects, including long-standing backlog projects, to clean up contaminated sites and advance environmental justice; and
- Fund 180 projects advancing President Biden’s Justice 40 initiative, which sets a goal that 40% of the overall benefits of certain federal clean energy, climate and other investments flow to disadvantaged communities.
“President Biden is using every tool in his artistic arsenal to rebuild the foundation of America,” White House deputy chief of staff Natalie Quillian told PoliticusUSA on a call with reporters. facilities, and ensuring no community is left behind. Access to high-speed internet, a clean energy economy, and good infrastructure for all Americans week, but empty punchlines were offered during the previous administration. Two and a half years into our government’s commitment to delivering infrastructure that will benefit generations to come, we have made tremendous progress across the country on projects we are breaking ground on and cutting ribbons on that will unlock economic opportunity. Millions of good-paying jobs, boosting domestic manufacturing, and growing our economy from the bottom up, from the bottom up, and from the middle out. The President’s Administration has announced plans in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and the territories. More than 56,000 specific infrastructure projects and incentives implemented in more than 4,500 communities.
Trump talks infrastructure, but Biden delivers on promises
Biden did what Trump could never do. He passed a bipartisan infrastructure bill through Congress and signed it into law. Biden is using rebuilding the nation’s crumbling infrastructure to create good jobs. The United States has not seen this level of infrastructure investment since the 1950s and 1960s. Trump calls himself a builder, but it is Joe Biden who is building roads and bridges, modernizing the power grid, and investing in the technology infrastructure of the future.
Trump spoke, but it was President Biden who spoke.
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