President Biden speaks about his infrastructure bill at a bridge over the Pemigewasset River in Woodstock, NH, which has been declared structurally unsafe.
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President Biden speaks about his infrastructure bill at a bridge over the Pemigewasset River in Woodstock, NH, which has been declared structurally unsafe.
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President Biden traveled to an old, unsafe bridge in New Hampshire on Tuesday to begin a government-wide tour to sell his benefits. newly signed bipartisan infrastructure law.
The tour is part of a roughly $1 trillion publicity effort that the law provides for needed investments in the nation’s transportation, broadband and water systems. Biden, who is falling in the polls, is looking for an incentive to help his fellow Democrats ahead of next year’s congressional elections.
Speaking on the Highway 175 bridge in Woodstock, New Hampshire, Biden talked about the bill’s importance to American families. “Clean water, internet access, rebuilding bridges – everything on this bill is important to the personal lives of real people. This is not something abstract,” Biden said as it snowed. gently hovered around him.
The New Hampshire stop is the first on a tour that will take members of his administration as far west as San Francisco and as far south as New Orleans to boost spending.
The bridge Biden spoke to, across the Pemigewasset River, built in 1939, was critical to emergency vehicles, school buses and trucks carrying propane, lumber and sand. .
It’s one of 215 bridges in New Hampshire that are considered structurally unsafe, he said.
Biden signed the bill into law on Monday at a White House ceremony on the South Lawn that included Democratic and Republican supporters of the spending package.
“Look, we’re at an inflection point in American history. This law meets that point,” Biden said on Tuesday.
“When you see these projects starting in your hometown, I want you to feel what I feel: pride,” he said.
