House Speaker Nancy Pelosi paid a visit to Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn neighborhood Thursday to promote a provision of the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act intended to stitch together communities divided by racist transportation policy.
The measure builds on a grant called the Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program based on legislation written by Atlanta Democratic U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams and passed in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed last November.
“When we passed the infrastructure bill, people said ‘is this going to be more of the same, building things that divide communities?’ We promised that it would not, in fact, that it would connect communities,” Pelosi said. “And in the bill, there is the reconnecting communities pilot program, $1 billion to take us down that path. But that was not enough. The Inflation Reduction Act legislation that was just passed and signed by the president, we have $3 billion.”
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