Flanked by scores of cranes, first lady Jill Biden visited the Pittsburgh region Tuesday in an effort to remind the region that the Biden administration supports, and provided funding for, many of its largest infrastructure projects. In a speech just outside of Pittsburgh International Airport, she praised Western Pennsylvania for its successful workforce development programs and the current $1.4 billion upgrade project for the airport, which was recently awarded $20 million in federal funds from the $1.2 trillion infrastructure law. Biden said that her husband, President Joe Biden, is fulfilling a campaign promise to help Pittsburgh by shepherding through federal infrastructure investment, which includes $9 billion in Pennsylvania. “Two years ago, my husband stood at the Carpenters union training center, and he promised to make the largest investment in infrastructure since the interstate highways, and that union workers would be at the heart of this effort,” she said to a small crowd of supporters in front of the airport. “That he would revitalize roads and bridges and schools and, yes, this very airport, and he has kept his promise.”

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