White House Emphasizes Brent Spence Bridge Impact During 'Investing In America' Tour Stop
U.S. Rep. Greg Landsman and senior White House adviser Mitch Landrieu held a press conference along the Ohio River on Thursday morning. But the star of the show was the Brent Spence Bridge.
Landsman and Landrieu — a former mayor of New Orleans — were in Cincinnati as part of the Biden administration’s three-week, 25-state “Investing in America” tour to highlight the proposed use of billions of federal dollars in an assortment of infrastructure projects.
During the tour, President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and more than two dozen senior administration officials made trips to cities across the country to update residents on the status of those investments.
“This is about rebuilding America,” said Landsman, a Democrat elected to represent Ohio First Congressional District last November.
Even with large investments in state funding from Kentucky and Ohio, work on Brent Spence Bridge wouldn’t have been possible without the federal grant, said Matt Bruning, press secretary for ODOT.
Almost every project ODOT performs receives some federal money, Bruning said. In a typical year, that averages about $1.4 billion each year in federal funding. The BIL injected another $300 million into that pot annually.