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Business Daily: The US and its trillion dollar infrastructure bill

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16/09/2021 GMT

The US and its trillion dollar infrastructure bill

BBC World Service - Business Daily, The US and its trillion dollar infrastructure bill

Why is this bill facing such a treacherous political road ahead?

The physical infrastructure of the United States is crumbling and businesses there are feeling the effects. So why is this bill that aims to restore roads, bridges and communications facing such a treacherous political road ahead? Successive Presidents have tried and failed to get something done about it. Now President Biden is having a go. A farmer in Mississippi tells Will Bain about the impact poor roads have on his business. He also hears from Emily Feenstra from the American Society of Civil Engineers who outlines just how bad the situation is and from the former Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell who now co-chairs the infrastructure think-tank Building America's Future.
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