Just as we don’t build enough housing, we also don’t build enough transit, modern infrastructure, or produce enough energy. And the result is higher rents and home prices, higher electricity prices, trains that go slower than they did a century ago, and slower economic growth.

We’re also seeing more and more communities struggle to upgrade the infrastructure that was built decades or even a century ago. Sewer systems. Stormwater systems. Waste disposal.

You may not think a lot about those things, but as a former Mayor, I think about them a lot.

Because most communities won’t be able to handle those costs on their own. Look at what happened in Waterbury last year, when their water main collapsed.

We need to make it faster and cheaper to build what we need. That means modernizing permitting, cutting unnecessary red tape, and investing at scale in modern infrastructure.

As a member of Congress, I’ll fight to expand on the infrastructure law that was passed by Democrats a few years ago – and also to make sure that we build faster and more efficiently, so that we get stuff done and treat taxpayer dollars like they matter.

And at a time when AI threatens to kill a lot of jobs in the short term, investing in infrastructure is a critically important way to put people to work on good-paying jobs that make a difference.