Biden pushes infrastructure plans in visit to New Hampshire

By CHRIS MEGERIAN
Associated Press

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — President Joe Biden is highlighting how last year’s infrastructure bill can improve shipping and help resolve the country’s supply chain debacles that have contributed to inflation at a 40-year high. He visited Portsmouth Harbor in New Hampshire on Tuesday. Biden said the nation is healthier than ever as it emerges from the coronavirus pandemic and a severe but short recession. Some of the money in the infrastructure bill is being used to dredge the harbor’s shipping channel and basin. Polling suggests many voters are uncomfortable about the future and Biden’s own economic leadership. Biden told people in the state that, “We’re the only country in the world that I believe has come out of every crisis we faced stronger than when we went in.”