President Trump promised to get America building again during the campaign.
He’s delivering on that promise with Secretary Duffy in charge.
And Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy bulldozed Biden’s red tape to get America building again.
Trump administration clears Biden-Buttigieg infrastructure backlog
The Biden-Harris administration claimed to be the infrastructure presidency.
In reality, they were all headlines and no action.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Tuesday that the Department of Transportation approved another 180 infrastructure grants worth $3.2 billion to get America building again.
“America is building again,” Secretary Duffy declared. “At the Department of Transportation, that means getting back to basics: Building More, Building Efficiently and Building Quickly. The last administration liked to grab the headlines but didn’t want to do the hard work of building.”
When President Trump took office in January, he inherited a staggering 3,200 infrastructure projects that the Biden-Harris administration had announced to the press but never actually executed.
The Trump administration has now approved 329 grants, roughly 10% of the Biden-Buttigieg backlog in just over three months.
Secretary Duffy has taken a bulldozer to the mountains of paperwork that bogged down these vital projects for years.
“They also tied road construction up with red tape and leftist social requirements – adding millions in costs and months of delay – all while our outdated infrastructure sat in disrepair,” Duffy explained. “This administration has a different vision: drain the swamp and make government work for the American people.”
Trump delivers on campaign promise to fund Alabama’s I-10 Bridge
The biggest grant in this latest package is $550 million for Alabama’s I-10 Mobile River bridge and Bayway multimodal project, a critical infrastructure upgrade that will bypass two aging tunnels and replace the existing Bayway Bridges.
This was a major campaign promise that President Trump has now fulfilled.
The Biden-Harris administration made funding this project part of their “infrastructure week” announcements but never actually allocated the money.
Removing expensive woke mandates saves taxpayers billions
Secretary Duffy didn’t just approve the projects – he ripped out costly DEI requirements and climate change mandates that were never authorized by Congress.
The Department of Transportation eliminated social cost of carbon accounting, pointless greenhouse gas emission reporting, and discriminatory DEI language from these projects.
Road construction costs skyrocketed roughly 70% under the Biden-Harris administration as builders struggled to comply with these burdensome regulations.
The greenhouse gas reporting requirements alone added months to the permitting process while driving up costs for taxpayers.
Working Americans benefit from real infrastructure investment
The 180 newly approved grants will fund critical infrastructure across the country, including:
- 17 bridge investment projects ($1.4 billion)
- 33 airport terminal upgrades ($277.1 million)
- 30 low emission bus grants ($494 million)
- 14 railroad crossing eliminations ($25 million)
- 2 port infrastructure development projects ($70 million)
Unlike the previous administration, Secretary Duffy is focused on building actual infrastructure rather than pushing a radical climate agenda.
The Biden-Harris team put politics over progress, forcing hard-working Americans to deal with crumbling roads, dangerous bridges, and outdated airports.
President Trump is making good on his promise to rebuild America’s infrastructure without the bloated bureaucracy and woke requirements that drove up costs under the previous administration.
Folks in small towns and big cities alike will finally see construction crews showing up to fix the roads, bridges, and airports that Biden promised but never delivered.
Duffy didn’t mince words about the previous administration’s failures. “They liked to grab the headlines but didn’t want to do the hard work of building,” he said, taking aim at Biden and Buttigieg’s empty promises.
In just over 100 days, Secretary Duffy has proven that real infrastructure progress is possible when you cut through the red tape and focus on delivering results for the American people.
