Marty Walsh remembers what it was like when a Cabinet secretary would come to town.

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President Joe Biden is set to meet Wednesday with West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, the top Republican negotiator on infrastructure as the administration signals time is running out to strike a bipartisan deal on the White House's big investment proposal and top legislative priority.

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday time is running short for a bipartisan deal on infrastructure, suggesting that President Joe Biden will look to act without Republican support if there is no consensus when Congress returns from its Memorial Day break.

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=Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday reinstated a program from the Obama administration meant to aid minority and disadvantaged people by ensuring local people are hired on public-works projects, reversing a decision by the Trump administration.

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President Joe Biden drew a red line on his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan on Wednesday, saying he is open to compromise on how to pay for the proposal but inaction is unacceptable.

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President Joe Biden is aiming for summer passage of an infrastructure plan that is expected to cost more than $3 trillion, and the White House hopes to take a more deliberate and collaborative approach with the contentious Congress than it did on the COVID-19 rescue package, officials said.

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is warning that the country's infrastructure needs exceed $1 trillion and that other countries, namely China, are pulling ahead of the U.S. with their public-works projects, a scenario he describes as "a threat to our collective future."

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on Thursday that an infrastructure plan expected soon from President Joe Biden will offer a "once in a century" opportunity to remake transportation in the United States, where cars and highways are no longer king.

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America's infrastructure has scored near-failing grades for its deteriorating roads, public transit and storm-water systems because of years of inaction from the federal government, the American Society of Civil Engineers reports. Its overall grade: a mediocre C-.

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Pete Buttigieg won Senate approval on Tuesday as transportation secretary, becoming the first openly gay person to be confirmed to a Cabinet post. He'll be charged with advancing President Joe Biden's ambitious agenda of rebuilding the nation's infrastructure and fighting climate change.

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