White House to ask mayors nationwide to name infrastructure coordinators

Spectrum NEWS NY1

By Justin Tasolides and Reuben Jones January 20, 2022

Weeks after asking governors to name coordinators to help implement funding from the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law at the state level, White House infrastructure coordinator Mitch Landrieu said they will soon ask mayors to do the same thing. In an interview with Spectrum News on Thursday, Landrieu said that the White House is “about to send” a letter to mayors across the country “asking them to appoint an infrastructure coordinator so that they can communicate” with the administration in order to make sure funds are being distributed and spent in the right way. In order for such a rollout to work nationwide, “and the only way that it can work,” Landrieu said, “is for everybody in the country to be ‘one team, one fight, one mission.'”

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