Biden heads to New Hampshire with new infrastructure czar Mitch Landrieu

Joe Biden and his new czar Mitch Landrieu will tout the administration's infrastructure plan in New Hampshire on Tuesday as the White House is warning the president's next big ticket item - his massive budget packet of social safety net programs - may not be fully paid for.

The backdrop for Biden's remarks will be the NH 175 Bridge in Woodstock, New Hampshire - an aging iron bridge over the Pemigewassett River that is on the 'red list' of state bridges needing repair. New Hampshire will receive $225 million for bridges from the infrastructure bill, the White House said. 

It's Biden's first visit to New Hampshire since February 2020 when he left the state in the late afternoon before the primary polls closed. He finished fifth in the first-in-the-nation presidential primary but he did beat Donald Trump there in the general election. 

He has an underwater approval rating in the state. A University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll in October found Granite Staters viewed him unfavorably by 48 per cent and favorably by 38 per cent.

The trips kicks off a week-long administration-wide effort to promote the bipartisan infrastructure law, which Biden signed at ceremony in the White House on Monday, surrounded by Democratic and Republican lawmakers. 

Biden will be in Detroit on Wednesday and, on Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris will go to Columbus, Ohio, while Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg goes to Arizona. 

Expect Democrats to tout its benefits and the major legislative victory as part of their re-election message in next year's midterm election. 

As the president tours the country, he will talk about 'how the benefits of these packages will impact people's everyday lives and what they talk about at their kitchen tables,' White

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