The Biden administration is continuing its campaign to push more funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) into the hands of state and local officials who can then move them closer to contract bidding and awards.
Biden’s infrastructure implementation coordinator, former New Orleans Governor Mitch Landrieu, says that of the IIJA’s $1.2-trillion total, federal departments and agencies in the past 110 days have “pushed down about $110 billion to the states.” The legislation was enacted last Nov. 15.