WASHINGTON − Since becoming law a year and a half ago, President Joe Biden’s infrastructure package has led to 32,000 projects announced across 4,500 communities totaling $220 billion in planned spending, according to the White House.
The Biden administration released the updated figures Friday ahead of “Infrastructure Week” − a moment on the calendar that is also Biden’s punchline to mock former President Donald Trump’s inability to pass a bipartisan infrastructure law when he was in office.
Mitch Landrieu, White House senior adviser and infrastructure coordinator, said the infusion of projects from Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure law − including roads, bridges, railways, broadband internet and electric car charging stations − is “arguably bigger than what happened in the New Deal,” referring to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signature public works programs in the 1930s.