{"id":2632,"date":"2021-05-12T13:15:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T18:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/?p=2632"},"modified":"2021-05-24T08:54:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T13:54:55","slug":"president-biden-calls-for-port-investment-in-address-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/12\/president-biden-calls-for-port-investment-in-address-to-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"President Biden Calls for Port Investment in Address to Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"161\" src=\"https:\/\/aapw01.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/05\/microphone-250p.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2633\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Biden outlined his budget and economic goals for the United States. He specifically mentioned the need for substantial port infrastructure investment included in his proposed American Jobs Plan currently being evaluated by Congress. In advocating for this transformative funding plan, President Biden stated, &#8220;(The American Jobs Plan) creates jobs to upgrade our transportation infrastructure; jobs modernizing our roads, bridges, highways; jobs building ports and airports, rail corridors, transit lines.&#8221;\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?c4961533\/user-clip-president-bidens-address-congress-april-28-2021\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Watch a clip of the speech here<\/span><\/a>. AAPA applauds the president&#8217;s championing the needs of ports.\u00a0 AAPA will continue working with the Administration and a bipartisan supported bill to secure generational investments in the nation\u2019s infrastructure so America can remain globally competitive. Ports are ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Biden outlined his budget and economic goals for the United States. He specifically mentioned the need for substantial port infrastructure investment included in his proposed American Jobs Plan currently being evaluated by Congress. In advocating for this transformative funding plan, President Biden stated, &#8220;(The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":2633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}