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Biden to promote U.S. infrastructure spending in bipartisan Kentucky visit

Published 01/01/2023, 07:49 PM
Updated 01/01/2023, 08:31 PM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks in front of the dilapidated Brent Spence Bridge during a visit to Cincinnati, Ohio September 22, 2011. REUTERS/John Sommers II

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks in front of the dilapidated Brent Spence Bridge during a visit to Cincinnati, Ohio September 22, 2011. REUTERS/John Sommers II

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By David Shepardson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden will join Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in a Wednesday event in Kentucky aimed at highlighting the effects of the $1 trillion 2021 infrastructure bill, a White House official said Sunday.

The pair, along with Republican Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Democratic Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, are to appear at a ceremony highlighting the $1.64 billion in funding awarded to for the Brent Spence Bridge Corridor Project connecting the two states across the Ohio River.

Funding for the crossing includes a new bridge and rehabilitation of the heavily congested 60-year-old one.

The new bridge is intended to rehabilitate a heavily congested 60-year-old span and add a second crossing.

McConnell, of Kentucky, was among the Republicans who voted for the infrastructure law, which was passed in November 2021, while many House Republicans including Representative Kevin McCarthy opposed it.

McConnell said last week in a statement that "building a new companion bridge on the Brent Spence Bridge corridor will be one of the bill's crowning accomplishments."

The event is set to take place the day after McCarthy's Republicans take the majority in the House, breaking Democrats' control of Congress and ushering in a period of divided government.

Kentucky and Ohio had sought funding for the project for years.

"This project will not only ease the traffic nightmare that drivers have suffered through for years, but it will also help ensure that the movement of the supply chain doesn't stall on this nationally significant corridor," DeWine said.

Then President Barack Obama visited the crossing in 2011 and urged Congress to pass a jobs bill costing billions of dollars that he said could include rebuilding the bridge, which by then had already been declared functionally obsolete.

During his 2016 run for the White House, Donald Trump backed funding for the project, but he failed during his four years in office to secure money for it or to pass the big infrastructure bill he repeatedly promised.

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks in front of the dilapidated Brent Spence Bridge during a visit to Cincinnati, Ohio September 22, 2011. REUTERS/John Sommers II

The 2021 infrastructure law includes $27 billion over five years to fix and replace thousands of aging U.S. bridges.

Other administration officials including Vice President Kamala Harris will also tout infrastructure awards in other events this week.

Latest comments

Finally we have a president getting things done and at least some normal Republicans not completely unhinged like the new house leadership full of traitor trump cucks
Dont forget 858 billion hoing to defense and overseas meanwhile our infrastructure is crumbling
This is a change of consciousness for McConnell. Obama failed to achieve investment in infrastructure that would have benefited Kentucky too because McConnell blocked him. Maybe he has figured out that when you let things go from bad to worse for no other reason than partisan politics, you end up with wing nuts, conspiracy theorists, and insurrectionists. McConnell is also supporting HISA.
Anyone who spits the words Biden and bipartisan in the same breath should be culled.
Another propaganda Reuters article, speedily re-posted by this site.
Put your tin foil back in the drawer, it's an automated feed.
This is a great accomplishment for Democrats and Republicans. Trump kept talking about it. Biden did it. The America haters will pretend it's something to complain about because they would be glad to see the US continue its decades of infrastructure neglect and fall further behind the rest of the world.
Tyrone Jackson... Brad has been good for a laugh for a while now.
More inflation.
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Can I ask how do you plan to finance this 1T new spending?
He’s gonna tax housewives selling their kids clothes on eBay. Lmao
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