How much does it cost to destroy our infrastructure?
1.2 Trillion $$$$$$
- President Joe Biden has signed into law the $1 trillion infrastructure bill.
- The ‘monumental’ bill promises vital investment in areas from roads, bridges and trains to broadband access and clean drinking water.
- Here, infrastructure expert Joel Moser talks about what the bill could achieve.
"Too often in Washington, the reason we don’t get things done is because we insist on getting everything we want. With this law, we focused on getting things done."
These were the words of US President Joe Biden on the White House South Lawn, at a bill-signing ceremony on 15 November.
He was signing into law
the $1 trillion infrastructure bill designed to create jobs across the country by dispersing billions of dollars to state and local governments to fix crumbling bridges and roads and by expanding broadband internet access to millions of Americans.
Earlier, Biden said of the bipartisan deal: "We did something that's long overdue ... a once-in-a-generation investment that's going to create millions of jobs modernizing infrastructure, our roads, our bridges, our broadband, all range of things."
When Biden says we'll get things done, it concerns me. Just saying...
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