I won’t miss Joe Biden because he became the face of America during his presidency, leaving a positive, persisting imprint across our government.
Althea Cole (Jan. 19) and Mike Hayes (Jan. 26), have been saying in the Gazette they won’t miss President Biden. They ran him down with words and stomped him like he was a dust ball in their closet. You may not miss Joe Biden but you will miss his policies.
I’ll mention three.
The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD), an Iowa program authorized by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 is bringing broadband to rural parts of the state where it had not been before. People I speak with say it is life-changing. Thank you, Joe Biden.
More than $200 million in National Institutes of Health funding comes into Iowa, supporting more than 2,500 jobs. Clinical trials and research are a part of so many of our lives. They include research into the prevention and treatment of cancer, which the governor highlighted in her condition of the state address. Biden supported this funding.
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is expected to send Iowa $3.9 billion in Federal highway formula funding for highways and bridges. We all use highways and bridges. Again, thank you, Joe Biden.
It’s a free country and people can say what they want. What I’ll say about Cole and Hayes is they are not being Iowa nice even though they should be.
~ Submitted as a letter to the editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette
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