In a recent interview with The New York Times, Whitmer was asked why President Joe Biden has so far struggled to earn widespread credit for the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law among voters.
Her response? Voters have been worn out by the pandemic and many just haven’t been tuned in to what’s happening in Washington.
“I think the pandemic’s taken a toll. People are stressed out,” Whitmer told the Times. “They’re just trying to pay the grocery bill, get the kids off to school, show up at their job, and maybe get a little bit of sleep at night. They’re not consuming everything.”
1.2 Trillion dollars could build a coast to coast high-speed rail system with spurs through every major city in America.
That would also be great, but there’s a lot more convincing required for that, hence how we reached this instead.