Why Biden Isn’t Getting More Credit for Roads and Bridges
Federal investment is up, but the state and local governments that do most such spending have just been through a deep slump.
State and local governments do the vast majority of US infrastructure spending.
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As president, Donald Trump was a serial failure when it came to passing infrastructure legislation, with repeated “Infrastructure Weeks” that came to naught. President Joe Biden has pushed four key spending bills through Congress consisting at least in part of infrastructure funding.
Yet a Politico-Morning Consult poll conducted at the end of last month found that most registered voters know little or nothing about Biden’s infrastructure legislation and that opinion is more or less split on whether Biden (40%) or Trump (37%) “has done more to promote infrastructure improvements and job creation.”