Following the money on the Biden-era infrastructure bill
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
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🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The Biden Administration's infrastructure act promised more than $1.2 trillion dollars to build up the country. More than five years later, what was built and what never got started?
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| 0:58.1 | I'm Megna Chakrabardi. |
| 0:59.7 | On November 15th, 2021, then President Joe Biden gathered industry leaders, lawmakers, and the press on the White House lawn. |
| 1:09.2 | They were there to witness the signing of the bipartisan |
| 1:12.7 | infrastructure deal, H.R. 3684, also known as the bipartisan infrastructure law, or the |
| 1:20.5 | Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The trillion dollar bill was one of the largest dedicated |
| 1:26.7 | to infrastructure in modern U.S. history, and the mood was congratulatory. |
| 1:31.4 | Donetta Williams is president of the United Steel Workers Local 1025. |
| 1:35.7 | She's an optical fiber maker and was the first to address the crowd. |
| 1:39.7 | Investments in infrastructure are critical to workers like me, my brothers and sisters, and other industries, and I was so proud to join them to help pass this bill. |
| 1:54.0 | You were signed today, President Biden. |
| 1:58.2 | Aquedetta Warren, mayor of Fontana, California, said the Infrastructure Act would change lives in her city. |
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