Once signed, the $550 billion in new spending will be the largest new investment the federal government has made on infrastructure in decades.
The infrastructure package includes “a 38% increase in road and bridge funding, and an infusion of highly-trained, younger talent into our workforce,” American Trucking Associations President and CEO Chris Spear said in a statement after the House passed the bill.
Still, the legislation represents a compromise. As the ATA put it on Sept. 12: “It is not a perfect piece of legislation — no bill is.”
