Articles Tagged with ''Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act''

Most of President Joe Biden’s March 7 speech to a joint session of Congress centered on domestic issues, but he also announced one construction-related overseas action.  

The agency aims to strengthen U.S. manufacturers and boost jobs, but removing the 40-year-old general waiver has drawn criticism from industry groups.

Construction industry groups want OMB to focus on general policy and give individual agencies more authority over the specifics.

Application requests for support far exceed the funds FAA has available.

Largest grant is $45 million for runway improvements at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

Biden said the measure, if enacted, would cancel existing domestic manufacturing standards for Federal Highway Administration-funded chargers and also harm U.S. manufacturing and jobs.

Top grant of $1B goes to a replacement bridge project linking Duluth, Minn., to Superior, Wis.

Former New Orleans mayor will serve as a co-chair of the Biden re-election campaign.

Since the 2021 passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, states have been prepping middle-mile broadband construction projects to help numerous communities with poor or little internet access get connected into expanding national and regional broadband networks.

Applications for the grants are due in February, with winners to be picked in June.