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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Neil Bradley, Executive Vice President and Chief Policy Officer, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, issued the following statement today regarding the Brent Spence Bridge Corridor Project receiving $1.64 billion in funding. “As part of the U.S. Chamber’s decades-long push to enact a historic infrastructure bill, we launched a successful campaign in February 2021 highlighting the failing Brent Spence Bridge as the type of project that demanded Congress's attention. The approximately 60-year-old bridge over which 3% of our nation's GDP passes each year has become a notorious chokepoint for...

No 10 says NHS is getting 'funding it needs' and refuses to accept it is 'in crisis'Earlier today the vice president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine said ministers were in denial over the extent of problems facing hospital A&E departments. (See 11.19am.) At the Downing Street lobby briefing this morning the prime minister’s spokesperson tried to avoid sounding complacent, but he did claim the NHS has the funding it needs this winter. He told journalists:We are confident we are providing the NHS with the funding it needs, as...