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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Aug. 1, 2022. Republicans see inflation, taxes and immigration as Democratic weak spots worth attacking, and two opposition senators as prime targets, in the upcoming battle over an economic package the Democrats want to push through the Senate. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Manchin bucks Biden, votes with GOP to slash red tape on energy production

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times
From left, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, talk about the bipartisan effort to pass a bill designed to encourage more semiconductor companies to build chip plants in the United States, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. The $280 billion measure, which awaits a House vote, includes federal grants and tax breaks for companies that construct their chip facilities in the U.S. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House sends Biden bill to spend $52 billion on computer chip production, compete with China

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times
A line of Spirit Airlines jets sit on the tarmac at Orlando International Airport on May 20, 2020, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

JetBlue agrees to buy Spirit for $3.8 billion

By Michelle Chapman - Associated Press
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden administration to tap into $1T infrastructure package to extend high-speed internet access

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
A line of Spirit Airlines jets sit on the tarmac at Orlando International Airport on May 20, 2020, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

Spirit, Frontier end merger bid, paving way for JetBlue deal

By David Koenig - Associated Press
An Amtrak train sits at a platform beneath Penn Station in New York on Monday, May 13, 2013. A funding agreement has been reached for the multibillion-dollar redevelopment of New York's aging Penn Station, the country's busiest rail hub. Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams announced the details on Monday, July 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Biden administration to spend $1.75B to upgrade train stations

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
Traffic drives in view of a Boeing Co. production plant, where images of jets decorate the hangar doors on April 23, 2021, in Everett, Wash. Roughly 2,500 Boeing workers are expected to go on strike the following month at three plants in the St. Louis area after they voted Sunday, July 24, 2022, to reject a contract offer from the plane maker. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

About 2,500 Boeing workers to strike after rejecting deal

Associated Press
Trucks line up to enter a Port of Oakland shipping terminal on Nov. 10, 2021, in Oakland, Calif. Truckers protesting a state labor law have effectively shut down cargo operations at the Port of Oakland, it was announced Wednesday, July 20, 2022. The protest that began Monday, July 18 involves hundreds of independent big-rig truckers that have blocked the movement of cargo in and out of terminals at the port, which is one of the 10 busiest container ports in the country. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Truckers shut down cargo shipping in Oakland over California gig economy law

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times
American Airlines passenger jets prepare for departure, Wednesday, July 21, 2021, near a terminal at Boston Logan International Airport, in Boston. Airlines facing a pilot shortage are boosting pay. The CEO of American Airlines said Thursday, June 30, 2022, that his airline has offered to raise pilot wages by nearly 17% through the end of 2024.(AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

American Airlines earns $476 million on record revenue in 2Q

Associated Press
Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, Thursday, July 14, 2022, in New York. The economy is a bit wobbly, but General Motors CEO Mary Barra isn't backing off of an audacious prediction: By the middle of this decade, her company will sell more electric vehicles in the U.S. than Tesla, the global sales leader. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

General Motors CEO Mary Barra stands by ambitious EV pledge

By Tom Krisher - Associated Press
This April 2, 2021, file photo shows freight train cars and containers at Norfolk Southern Railroad's Conway Yard in Conway, Pa. On Tuesday, June 14, 2022, the National Mediation Board decided that mediation isn't working in the joint talks that cover roughly 140,000 workers in 13 unions at the biggest freight railroads that deliver the raw materials many companies rely upon and the cars, chemicals and containers full of consumer goods they make. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Threat of election-eve rail strike tests Biden's pro-union persona

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times
A tug driver pushes a Delta Air Lines Boeing 737 back from a gate, Thursday, July 7, 2022, at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Delta Air Lines said Wednesday, July 13, 2022, that it earned $735 million in the second quarter. Earnings per share fell short of Wall Street expectations, however, which the airline blamed on high fuel prices and more than 4,000 canceled flights in May and June. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Delta Air Lines charters plane from London to send home 1,000 lost pieces of luggage

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times
In this photo provided by Dax McDonald, debris sits near railroad tracks after an Amtrak passenger train derailed near Mendon, Mo., on Monday, June 27, 2022. The Southwest Chief, traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago, was carrying about 243 passengers when it collided with a dump truck near Mendon, Amtrak spokeswoman Kimberly Woods said. (Dax McDonald via AP)

At least 3 killed when Amtrak train collides with dump truck, derails

By Summer Ballentine - Associated Press
In this file photo, President Joe Biden meets virtually with infant formula manufacturers from the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, June 1, 2022, as his administration works to ease nationwide shortages by importing foreign supplies and using the Defense Production Act to speed domestic production. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Critics alarmed by Biden's frequent use of Defense Production Act

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times
American Airlines planes are parked at Miami International Airport gates, on Nov. 23, 2021, in Miami. American Airlines is joining rivals in predicting a boom in revenue this summer, as people crowd on planes after two years of pandemic. American said Friday that second-quarter revenue will rise 11% to 13% above the same quarter in 2019. That's even rosier than American's previous forecast. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier) **FILE**

American Airlines allegedly fingers wrong man for cops, innocent passenger jailed for 17 days

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times
In this July 13, 2021, photo, the logo for Boeing appears on a screen above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Boeing Co., a leading defense contractor and one of the world's two dominant manufacturers of airline planes, is expected to move its headquarters from Chicago to the Washington, D.C., area, according to two people familiar with the matter. The decision could be announced as soon as later Thursday, May 5, 2022, according to one of the people. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Boeing will move its headquarters to D.C. area from Chicago

By David Koenig and Sarah Rankin - Associated Press
Mass transit riders wear masks as they commute in the financial district of lower Manhattan, Tuesday, April 19, 2022, in New York. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Tampa, Fla., on April 18, 2022, voided the national travel mask mandate as exceeding the authority of U.S. health officials. The mask mandate that covers travel on airplanes and other public transportation was recently extended by President Joe Biden's administration until May 3. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Biden could try to run out the clock on transportation mask mandate: experts

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks about his infrastructure agenda at the New Hampshire Port Authority in Portsmouth, N.H., Tuesday, April 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Biden travels to N.H., touting infrastructure spending's impact on supply chain issues

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times
Travelers wait in a security line at Love Field in Dallas, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. The major airlines and many of the busiest airports dropped their mask requirements after a Florida judge struck down the CDC mandate and the Transportation Security Administration announced it wouldn't enforce its 2021 security directive. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Transit passengers breathe sigh of relief as masks come off

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times
In this Oct. 15, 2015, file photo, vehicles pass a highway construction site near Sacramento, Calif. The Biden administration announced Tuesday it reimplemented core protections to an environmental law on infrastructure projects, a climate-related regulation that former President Donald Trump had rolled back. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) **FILE**

Biden reverses Trump climate policy, restores environmental rules for infrastructure projects

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times
In this Oct. 7, 2014, file photo, traffic on the Brent Spence Bridge passes in front of the Cincinnati skyline while crossing the Ohio River to and from Covington, Ky. Governors from Ohio and Kentucky asked the federal government on Monday, Feb. 28, 2022, for $2 billion to fix and replace a bridge that became a symbol during the debate over the infrastructure bill passed last year. Overhauling the Brent Spence Bridge that connects Cincinnati with Northern Kentucky was a big selling point for President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)

Biden to agencies: Make sure infrastructure materials funded by law are 'Made in America'

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, April 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden advocates for legislation to boost spending on manufacturing, research

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks at POET Bioprocessing in Menlo, Iowa, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Inflation hits home for Biden, takes a bite out of his biggest legislative win

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
In this Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, a passenger wears a face mask she travels on a flight from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. The lead plaintiff in a group of cases aiming to end the federal transportation mask mandate is vowing to continue the legal fight as the Biden administration extended the face-covering requirement that was set to expire on April 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File) **FILE**

CDC's mask mandate extension keeps legal fights alive

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times
Travelers are lining up at O'Hare airport in Chicago, Friday, July 2, 2021. The federal requirement to wear face masks on airplanes and public transportation is scheduled to expire next week, and airline executives and Republican lawmakers are urging the Biden administration to let the mandate die. The fate of the rule — and consideration of an alternate “framework” of moves to limit the spread of COVID-19 — was under discussion Monday, April 11, 2022 within the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

CDC extends transportation mask rule for two weeks

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this Feb. 11, 2014, file photo, truck drivers stop at a gas station in Emerson, Ga., north of metro Atlanta, to fill up their tractor trailer rigs. (AP Photo/David Tulis, File)

Biden to unveil plans to increase the number of truck drivers

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
In this Thursday, May 26, 2016, photo, travelers stand in line as they prepare to pass through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at Miami International Airport, in Miami. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) **FILE**

TSA's scanner 'inclusive' upgrade for transgender passengers costs taxpayers $18.6 million

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, on Nov. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden adds equity, climate change to applications for infrastructure grants; critics call it 'woke'

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Interstate 81 North near the Minersville exit, Foster Twp., Pa., was the scene of a multi-vehicle crash on Monday, March 28, 2022. (David McKeown/Republican-Herald via AP)

3 dead in snowy pileup of dozens of vehicles in Pennsylvania

Associated Press
In this file photo, Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator Mitch Landrieu speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022, in Washington. Since taking the position last November, Republicans say, Mr. Landrieu has rebuffed calls to provide a bipartisan briefing on how the taxpayer money is being spent. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Democrats push Biden to ramp up infrastructure spending ahead of tumultuous midterms

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

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Download the Special Report available in the March 22, 2018, edition of The Washington Times. (4.2 MB)

Infrastructure 2018: Moving America Forward — Land, Water and Air: Download the Special Report available in the March 22, 2018, edition of The Washington Times. (4.2 MB)

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