President Joe Biden returns to southwest Wisconsin to make good on his promise to provide new investments in rural electrification. Biden will be in Westby on Thursday to announce $7.3 billion in investments for 16 cooperatives that will provide electricity for rural areas across 23 states.
President Joe Biden speaks in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024, to kickoff the Investing in America event. Biden will be in Westby to announce $7.3 billion in investments for 16 cooperatives that will provide electricity for rural areas across 23 states. The intent is to bring down the cost of badly needed internet connections in hard-to-reach areas.
Funding for the project comes from the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law in August 2022 and passed in Congress along party lines. The law invests roughly $13 billion in rural electrification across multiple programs and will create 4,500 permanent jobs and 16,000 construction jobs, according to the White House.
The administration calls it the largest investment in rural electrification since the New Deal in the 1930s.. Biden won the state in 2020 by about 20,000 votes, flipping Wisconsin to the Democratic column after Trump narrowly won it in 2016.Mayor condemns GOP Senate race ad tying Democrat to Wisconsin Christmas parade killingsAnd Thursday’s trip will be a return to a state that Biden visited early in his presidency.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Natalie Quillian told reporters Wednesday previewing Biden’s trip that, “when he returns tomorrow, he will have delivered on so many of those promises.”Hussein reports on the U.S. Treasury Department for The Associated Press. She covers tax policy, sanctions and any issue that relates to money.
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