Biden pledges billions to rebuild cities ‘torn apart’ by highways decades ago

President announces $3.3bn in infrastructure spending to right historic wrongs' as he takes 2024 campaign to vital swing states

Joe Biden hailed the beginning of $3.3bn in infrastructure spending on US projects on Wednesday to right historic wrongs" with efforts to reconnect city neighborhoods riven by interstate highways that plowed with particular impunity through many Black, brown, Asian American and Hispanic communities decades ago.

The US president was in Milwaukee, where he traveled to announce new infrastructure investment and officially open his election campaign's Wisconsin office in the vital swing state.