Biden officials see a second chance to promote last year's infrastructure law with projects underway

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(CNN)Most of the money from President Joe Biden's massive infrastructure bill is being handed out this summer and fall, nearly a year after passage, just in time for a campaign season he hopes will keep his fellow Democrats in power. But his team's task is getting people to pay attention -- and give them credit for what they did.

Starting Tuesday, Biden administration officials will start a weeks-long blitz across the country -- including in many midterm battleground states, where they'll appear with governors, senators and members of Congress -- with a pitch focused on generating local attention and media coverage, either through in-person or virtual events with local officials.

This comes after multiple conversations over the summer with the Cabinet secretaries most focused on implementing the projects in which infrastructure coordinator Mitch Landrieu stressed that they'd been selling the bill all wrong. They were talking too much about the win in Washington and less about how they projects would make a difference in people's lives.

But now administration officials think they're about to get a second chance: the way that the law was structured, the actual money -- rather than promises of what could be -- was always set to start flowing in August. And they're hoping to draft off a larger sense of Biden wins from other major bills he's gotten through in recent weeks.


https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/22/politics/biden-administration-tries-to-sell-infrastructure-projects/index.html

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1. This the perfect time to toot the horn about Build Back Better.

The projects are getting going now as the money goes out, so there are tangible things to talk about, and it's great timing that it's right before the midterms. Win-win all around.