President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris convened the Infrastructure Implementation Task Force on Thursday, the anniversary of the president’s first day in office.
The group discussed the first two months of results from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Biden commended his team for hitting the ground running to deliver the largest long-term investment in America’s infrastructure and competitiveness in nearly a century. He discussed his priorities for building a better America, including creating good-paying, union jobs, supporting domestic manufacturing, strengthening supply chains, ensuring investments advance equity and racial justice, and bolstering the nation’s resilience to climate change.
“When we start moving stuff faster through our ports,” Biden said, “when bridges do not have weight restrictions, when there is less traffic on our roads because there are more roads to travel on and people are not backed up bumper-to-bumper and more capacity in our rails, that is how we resolve the supply chain problem and get goods to people and get them to them quicker and — quicker and cheaper.”
Cabinet and task force members provided updates on distributing investments for road and bridge repair, replacement lead pipes, clean water and high-speed internet.
The president directed Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator Mitch Landrieu to work across federal, state, local, and Tribal governments to ensure strong accountability so the government is a good steward of taxpayer dollars.
