When President Biden delivered his state of the Union address this winter, the big

emotional thrust of the speech was a law he had signed more than a year earlier.

Projects are going to put thousands of people to work rebuilding our highways, our bridges,

our railroads, our tunnels, ports, airports, clean water, high speed internet all across

America.

The bipartisan Infrastructure Act, a $1.2 trillion law that achieved two major promises

of Biden's campaign for the White House, that he would put federal money into rebuilding

the country, and that he could get Republicans and Democrats to actually work together and

past major legislation.

I remember Republicans and friends who voted against it as well, but I still get asked

to fund the projects in those districts as well, but don't worry.

I promised I'd be a president for all Americans.

We'll fund these projects, and I'll see you at the groundbreaking.

This is the year that a lot of the money starts flowing to states and local governments,

225 billion of it so far.

And if Biden wants voters to think about him as a president who got major life changing

projects passed and built before next year's election, this is the year the act needs to

start to stick more in American's minds.

The man in charge of making sure that all of this happens, that money gets to state

and local governments, that bids for the construction of these big projects go out in

time, that enough people are signing up for the new programs.

This former New Orleans mayor Mitch Landryu.

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