State lawmakers have largely signed off on the Wisconsin Department of Transportation's plans for spending the $282.9 million the state is due from the infrastructure bill adopted by Congress last year.

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Michigan is investing more than $4.7 billion to improve infrastructure, including drinking water upgrades, internet access and fixing roads, bridges and dams.

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz asked his state Legislature on Tuesday to back a $2.7 billion "local jobs and projects" plan that's considerably larger than the record package that lawmakers passed two years ago.

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Fighting sagging poll ratings, President Joe Biden set out Tuesday on a national tour to persuade everyday Americans of the benefits of his big, just-signed infrastructure plan. First stop: a snowy, rusty bridge in New Hampshire, a state that gave him no love in the presidential primaries last year.

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President Joe Biden signed his $1 trillion infrastructure deal into law Monday on the White House lawn, with a smattering of Republican lawmakers on hand for what could be one of the last shows of bipartisanship ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

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The $1 trillion infrastructure plan that President Joe Biden plans to sign into law has money for roads, bridges, ports, rail transit, safe water, the power grid, broadband internet and more.

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Wisconsin stands to receive more than $1 billion in additional highway money in the next five years from the federal infrastructure bill that passed Congress last week, according to an analysis by the state's Legislative Fiscal Bureau. 

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Most government spending does reach the intended targets – like mass transit, clean energy and broadband internet – but some of the money will undoubtedly be lost to fraud. How much is impossible to predict, but I believe a reasonable estimate based on past spending and research would put it at around 5%, or $150 billion.

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Top officials in the Wisconsin construction industry are praising the passage of a $1.2 trillion federal infrastructure plan.

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President Joe Biden on Saturday hailed Congress' passage of his $1 trillion infrastructure package as a "monumental step forward for the nation" after fractious fellow Democrats resolved a months-long standoff in their ranks to finally seal the deal.

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