Construction and engineering groups praised the strong support for continued heavy infrastructure funding that President Joe Biden voiced in his State of the Union address. But he prompted some industry unease in announcing that a potentially broader Buy American mandate for projects is coming soon from his administration.
In his Feb. 6 speech before a joint session of Congress, Biden repeated a comment he had made before— that the U.S. had once ranked first among countries for infrastructure but has since dropped to No. 13.