On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris visited the Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership/BIG STEP program in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to meet with residents affected by lead pipe contamination and the workers replacing lead pipes in the city to discuss how the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act would help modernize American infrastructure.
Vice President Harris was joined by Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan. Sen. Baldwin is a Senate CTE Caucus co-chair.
Harris noted that at its core, this issue is about more than just public health. "It is about developing the skills to do the work that must be done to strengthen the United States of America and our infrastructure," Harris said.
Concluding her remarks, Harris added that replacing aging infrastructure will help create jobs in a wide variety of in-demand career fields, including construction and manufacturing, as well as boost support for the apprenticeship programs that train workers to complete these upgrades.
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