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Get Ready for Trump to Take Credit for Biden’s Successes
There are currently 66,000 ongoing infrastructure improvement projects across the United States.
196,000 miles of roads and 11,400 bridges are being repaired.
367,000 lead pipes are being replaced.
Airports and seaports are undergoing modernization.
Historian Heather Cox Richardson explained:
The Biden-Harris administration today [Thursday] released numbers revealing that over the past four years, their policies have kick-started a boom in the creation of small businesses across the country. Since the administration took office, entrepreneurs have filed more than 20 million applications for new businesses, the most of any presidential term in history. This averages to more than 440,000 applications a month, a rate more than 90% faster than averages before the pandemic. Black business ownership has doubled, and Hispanic business ownership is up by 40% since before the pandemic.
The administration encouraged that growth with targeted loans, tax credits, federal contracts, and support services. Small businesses are major job creators and employ about 47% of all private sector employees.
On Friday, the Biden administration announced an additional $1.5 billion investment in railroad upgrades along the…
