Biden appoints a consultant to oversee the implementation of his massive infrastructure program

 
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US President Joe Biden has tasked former New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu with overseeing the implementation of his massive infrastructure program, which includes investments worth $1.2 trillion.
Assuming this position, Landrieu will oversee “the most important investment in American infrastructure in generations,” the White House said in a statement.
 
The plan, recently passed by Congress after several months of procrastination, aims to create millions of jobs and improve the poor road network, including bridges, as well as waterways, roads and ports.
Today, Monday, Biden will sign this $1.2 trillion bill, which also aims to develop high-speed Internet.
Biden desperately needed this achievement, with his popularity waning after his party’s resounding defeat in Virginia’s gubernatorial elections and a year before the midterm elections in which Democrats could lose a slim parliament majority.
And Landrieu, 61, is used to dealing with crises. In 2010, he served as mayor of New Orleans, which was experiencing a slowdown in recovery from the bloody and devastating Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He also served as deputy governor of Louisiana.