Elaine Chao: “We want to ensure that the best services are available to the recipients and beneficiaries of these grants.”

We probably will not have enough skilled trades workers to be able to address all the infrastructure needs when it finally gets all going . . . So, the workforce training and retraining part is important.

No political pressure is going to take one of those projects, put it at the head of the line, ahead of all other projects, which is what is happening in this particular case.

I do not think that the Government should be the one deciding what technologies to use; and right now, it is not yet set which technology is best.

The critical work to combat the haunting rise of hatred against the AAPI community must intensify with the immediacy, this latest tragedy commands.