Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy told the Washington Examiner on Monday that former President Joe Biden’s administration failed to sort out grant agreements for thousands of infrastructure projects, leaving the department with “a backlog of work.”

Duffy’s predecessor, Pete Buttigieg, said in an interview with NPR last year that under the Biden administration, DOT announced $570 billion in infrastructure funding for more than 66,000 projects in every state, but warned that “many” of these endeavors will “take the better part of a decade” to be completed.

Duffy told the Examiner that about 3,200 of those infrastructure projects were announced without the Biden administration having secured grant agreements, leaving the Transportation Department with the backlog.

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