A new paradigm for American infrastructure: Biden's agenda to rebuild America

Abstract

Abstract: Biden’s infrastructure policy represents one of the most important achievements of his administration and one that vastly departed from previous presidencies’ policy. This achievement materialized within the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: a bill approved by Congress in 2021 as a part of Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. The Act provides for the hugest investment in physical infrastructure in American history since the New Deal and it put at the centre the federal government and the executive federal departments and agencies in financing and planning new projects and programs. However, for the success of the plan, a collaboration between federal government and States is much needed, in view of the approach of the U.S. federalism.

Keywords: Biden presidency; Build Back Better; Competitive grant programs; Formula grant programs; Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act; Federalism.