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    "summary": "In June 2017, the Trump White House announced an \"Infrastructure Week\" to promote a $1 trillion infrastructure plan. Other news, including fired FBI Director James Comey's Senate testimony, took over the coverage. Later infrastructure events were also overshadowed, and the phrase became what CNN called \"a running joke.\" No Trump infrastructure bill passed. Congress passed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and President Biden signed it on November 15, 2021, opening his remarks on its House passage with \"Finally, infrastructure week.\"",
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        "why_it_fits": "On Aug 15, 2017, at Trump Tower, President Trump said he had \"just signed a new executive order to dramatically reform the nation's badly broken infrastructure permitting process.\" The White House called the event \"the Infrastructure Discussion,\" according to The Fiscal Times. In the questions that followed, Trump said \"there's blame on both sides\" for the Charlottesville violence, and coverage of that replaced the infrastructure message. By then, The Fiscal Times wrote, Trump had signed the permitting order but had \"yet to deliver on his proposal to spend $1 trillion\" on infrastructure. CNN's 2019 retrospective counted this event as \"Infrastructure Week No. 2.\" The infrastructure law that eventually passed was a bipartisan bill of more than $1 trillion, which, CNBC reported, President Biden would sign on Nov 15, 2021.",
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