Policymakers Raise Issue of Federal Oversight in Infrastructure Investments

Transport Topics By Noël Fletcher

March 4, 2022

Congressional transportation officials are raising the issue of oversight in how states will spend $1.2 trillion in federal infrastructure funding.

Reps. Sam Graves (Mo.) and James Comer (Ky.), both Republicans, cited concerns about avoiding wasteful or fraudulent spending in a letter they sent March 3 to Mitch Landrieu, the White House senior adviser and infrastructure coordinator leading the Biden administration’s implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which Biden signed into law in November.

“This massive spending bill is in large part a combination of lump sums broadly categorizing what money must go toward which, unfortunately, leaves the door open for the administration to pursue their ‘woke’ priorities rather than allocating the funds based on states’ actual needs. The expansive purpose for which the funds were allocated, along with the magnitude of the expenditure, create a greater-than-usual opportunity for corruption and wasteful spending,” the letter declared.

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