WaPo: “Two years ago this week, President Biden signed the bipartisan infrastructure bill into law. The day before, on Nov. 14, 2021, he named former Louisiana lieutenant governor and New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu as his senior adviser responsible for overseeing the historic $1.2 trillion law’s implementation.
Last week, I sat down with Landrieu to discuss what has been accomplished. The following has been edited for clarity and brevity…
This president said, “Look, I really think it’s important that we figure out how to make government work better. And so I need an implementation strategy.” So he called me to come up. The better idea for the country was we were going to spend time trying to get the money out the door, down on the ground and actually have something coming out of the ground. In two short years, we have more than 40,000 projects that are funded in the country in 4,500 communities in all 50 states, the territories and Washington, D.C. That’s incredible.”