Gretchen Whitmer: “Since I took office, through the end of this construction…”

“It was a joint effort. Good job. It was a decades long problem. We delivered a thoughtful bipartisan solution. I'm really proud of this one. Since I took office, through the end of this construction season, we will have fixed 26,500 lane miles of road and almost 2,000 bridges and supporting over 200,000 jobs. We've had some of the busiest construction seasons in Michigan history and more are coming. There's still a lot of work to do. So when you see those orange barrels, just know.” (42:14–42:26)

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