Vice President Kamala Harris headlined the final day of the White House’s three-week “Investing in America” tour touting infrastructure and technology projects across the country with a visit to a span of the 14th Street bridge in Washington, D.C.
“We think about things like the Golden Gate Bridge,” Harris said, but bridges like the span of the 14th Street bridge are “just as important.”
The funding announcement and others made over the course of the White House tour stemmed from the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law, which will upgrade 15,000 bridges across the nation. The spending represents “the largest bridge investment since the creation of the highway system,” a senior administration official said previewing Thursday’s funding round.
