{"id":6723,"date":"2021-12-02T14:15:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T14:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6723"},"modified":"2021-12-02T14:15:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T14:15:15","slug":"states-have-the-power-to-make-or-break-the-infrastructure-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6723","title":{"rendered":"States have the power to make or break the infrastructure law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Now that President Joe Biden has signed the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/3684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act<\/a>&nbsp;(also known as the bipartisan infrastructure framework, or BIF) into law, the federal government faces a new challenge: getting the funds out to states and cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the coming months \u2014 and years \u2014federal agencies will distribute billions of dollars for everything from bridge repairs to public transit expansions to bike paths. Most of this money will go directly to state governments, which will have significant discretion over which projects they\u2019d like to fund.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/11\/15\/22772627\/states-infrastructure-congress-biden\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/11\/15\/22772627\/states-infrastructure-congress-biden<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Now that President Joe Biden has signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (also known as the bipartisan infrastructure framework, or BIF) into law, the federal government faces a new challenge: getting the funds out to states and cities.<\/p>\n<p>In the coming months \u2014 and years \u2014 federal agencies will distribute billions of dollars for everything from bridge repairs to public transit expansions to bike paths. Most of this money will go directly to state governments, which will have significant discretion over which projects they\u2019d like to fund.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[905,961,709,1247,780,200,469,759],"class_list":["post-6723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bill","tag-cities","tag-federalism","tag-infrastructure","tag-joe-biden","tag-law","tag-money","tag-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6724,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions\/6724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}