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Lawmakers scramble to get pet projects funded under infrastructure plan

By Sarah Bedford
Published April 20, 2021 10:45am ET
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Lawmakers scramble to get pet projects funded under infrastructure plan
Workers fix a sewer main below the sidewalk in Mid City New Orleans, on Jan. 31, 2018. The city of New Orleans is perhaps one of the best examples of what President Trump calls the country’s “crumbling infrastructure.” City officials say New Orleans needs more than $11 billion to update key parts of its infrastructure. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

As Democrats work to turn President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure outline into a concrete plan, lawmakers are scrambling to ensure projects helpful to their own states make it into the final cut of the bill.

Members of the House and Senate are pushing to get a cut of the massive federal spending package directed toward home-state tunnels, highways, train routes, and more.

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