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Maya Yang and Joanna Walters in New York and agency

Biden pledges billions to rebuild cities ‘torn apart’ by highways decades ago

Man in suit speaks into microphone
Joe Biden in Milwaukee on Wednesday. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Joe Biden hailed the beginning of $3.3bn in infrastructure spending on US projects on Wednesday “to right historic wrongs” with efforts to reconnect city neighborhoods riven by interstate highways that plowed with particular impunity through many Black, brown, Asian American and Hispanic communities decades ago.

The US president was in Milwaukee, where he traveled to announce new infrastructure investment and officially open his election campaign’s Wisconsin office in the vital swing state.

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