Buttigieg Starts Infrastructure Push With a Warning on China
- Administration is preparing a $3 trillion infrastructure bill
- GOP objects to expected climate provisions in Biden bill
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg warned lawmakers that the nation faces a massive backlog of infrastructure projects and is at risk of falling behind competitors like China.
“Across the country, we face a trillion-dollar backlog of needed repairs and improvements, with hundreds of billions of dollars in good projects already in the pipeline,” he said in opening remarks for a U.S. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing Thursday.