White House to mark infrastructure week 18 months after signing of bipartisan law

For the past two years, President Biden has frequently quipped that “infrastructure week” was nothing more than a punchline during the Trump administration. On Friday, it will be a cause for celebration for his administration.

Industry advocates and trade groups mark infrastructure week in Washington, D.C., every May, and the Biden administration is taking advantage to tout the progress it has made in the 18 months since the president signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

“It became a punchline about infrastructure week. Essentially, we not only have an infrastructure week, we have it every week, and it actually is going to go on for a decade. And we have the receipts to talk about it,” Mitch Landrieu, who is overseeing the implementation of the law, told a small group of reporters.

The bipartisan law, which has been among the most significant pieces of legislation signed during Biden’s first term, allocated $1.2 trillion in funding for investments in the nation’s roads, bridges, railways and airports.

In the year and a half since the law was enacted, the Biden administration has announced more than $220 billion in funding through the legislation, covering more than 32,000 different projects that span all 50 states.

The investments include more than 4,600 bridge improvement projects that are underway and 69,000 miles of road repairs that were started in fiscal year 2022.

In addition to ...