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The Infrastructure Package Was Signed By The President. Now What?

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🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

After years of jokes about unsuccessful Infrastructure Weeks, months of deliberation, and bouts of gridlock on the political left, a $1.2 trillion package made its way through Congress at long last. The president signed it into law earlier this month. Now, the challenge of actually getting the money where it needs to be remains.

NPR's White House Correspondent Franco Ordonez followed President Biden around the country earlier this month to report on the changes to come, now that the bill is law.

And NPR's National Desk Correspondent Nathan Rott reports on the portions of the infrastructure package that address resilience and protecting communities historically hit hardest by climate change.

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0:00.0

So, how about that infrastructure bill?

0:02.5

Oh, thank you.

0:08.7

That's that bill that took several months to negotiate?

0:11.8

Well, it was finally passed by Congress on the first Friday night of this month.

0:16.7

It took the president another week and a half to sign it at the White House.

0:20.6

And between the drawn out legislative process, all the supply chain in pandemic news and the

0:25.1

holiday season rolling toward us, you might have blinked and missed it.

0:29.2

I ran for president believing it was time to rebuild the backbone of this nation, which

0:33.0

I characterized as working people in the middle class.

0:36.0

There are the ones who built the country.

0:38.0

And to rebuild the economy from the bottom up in the middle out.

0:41.6

That's Biden making the case that this law is based on a central promise of his presidential

0:46.5

campaign.

0:47.5

This law delivers on that long overdue promise in my view of creating better jobs for millions

0:52.1

of Americans.

0:53.1

A promise some Republicans were happy to help him deliver on.

0:56.7

Something America desperately needs 70-5% of American people.

1:01.9

Like it, we need it.

1:03.3

Our infrastructure is crumbling all across the country.

1:05.9

That's right.

1:07.4

Republicans sent it minority leader Mitch McConnell telling local Kentucky radio station

1:12.0

WHAS why he supported the $1.2 trillion bill.

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