Harris to close out ‘Invest in America’ tour by announcing $300M in bridge repair funding

The Biden administration will reveal almost $300 million in Bipartisan Facilities Law moneying to fix and change bridges throughout 8 states and the District of Columbia Thursday, liquidating its 3 week “Buy America” trip highlighting legal accomplishments under President Joe Biden.

Vice President Kamala Harris will make the statement at the Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge, which links Washington, DC, to Northern Virginia and will get $72 million in financing for repair work, the White Home stated. According to a reality sheet shown CNN, the bridge serves over 88,000 automobiles each day.

In addition, administration authorities, consisting of Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg and facilities organizer Mitch Landrieu, will fan out throughout the nation to highlight bridge jobs in San Diego; Bay City, Michigan; Albany, New York City; Northwest Oklahoma; Portland, Oregon; Northwest South Carolina; San Antonio; and Madison, Wisconsin.

The financing is the most recent in a series of jobs targeted at protecting and fixing the country’s bridges, consisting of in 2015’s Bridge Solution Program, which launched $11 billion in Department of Transport financing in 2022 and 2023 to states, people, and areas for bridge repair work. It likewise designated $2.1 billion in Federal Highway Administration grants to make vital enhancements to the Brent Spence Bridge linking Kentucky and Ohio; the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco; the Gold Star Memorial Bridge in New London, Connecticut; and the Calumet River Bridges in Chicago.

Given that Biden signed the facilities law in November 2021, a main informed press reporters Wednesday, states, cities, people, and urbane preparation companies throughout the nation have actually started repair work on over 4,600 of the country’s bridges.

Thursday’s statement marks the last stop on the administration’s “Buy America” trip, which Biden introduced last month by exploring a semiconductor factory in Durham, North Carolina. Per an administration authorities, 20 agents from the Biden administration took a trip to over 50 cities throughout 25 states throughout the trip, highlighting $435 billion in financing for 23,000 facilities jobs in 4,500 cities and towns throughout the United States.