Biden’s Climate Promises Challenged by Highway Money Influx (1)

The Biden administration wants federal infrastructure money used to fix crumbling roads and bridges before being spent to build new ones, in part to limit climate change. Even so, the White House may have little say in how hundreds of billions of dollars are deployed.

Republicans are bashing as federal overreach administration directives on how to spread the infrastructure funds, and the back-and-forth has become contentious in recent weeks as money from the new law starts to flow to states.

“The administration put out guidance saying, ‘We’d really like you to take care of what you built before you build ...