The association pushes back against the latest proposed guidance from the White House seeking to unrealistically restrict construction supply chains.

White House proposes that highway construction funding be used to pay bus drivers, train operators, and other transit operational expenses.

Top risks identified in the survey results included price increases in materials and equipment, lack of skilled/craft labor, as well as lack of field supervisors.

AGC challenges Commerce Secretary to work with the association to help actually address construction workforce shortages by significantly increasing federal investments in career and technical education, not more mandates for project labor agreements on CHIPS Act-funded semiconductor facility projects.

On February 23, members of Congress reintroduced the PRO Act, an ambitious attempt to overturn decades of federal labor policy that threatens both union and open-shop contractors.

AGC of America, along with other allies, jointly submitted an amicus brief at the U.S. Supreme Court on March 3 in support of a land developer’s request for review of a case that allows citizen enforcement even when the state environmental agency has begun enforcement for a Clean Water Act (CWA) violation.

The Chicago non-partisan mayoral primary is unofficially complete and as recent polling suggested was a possible outcome, incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) fell in defeat last without even qualifying for the secondary runoff election.

AGC joins Senator Capito and Congressman Graves in declaring victory after pressing the Federal Highway Administration for over a year to follow the regulatory process and let states decide to move forward with infrastructure projects as they deem appropriate and as the IIJA intended.

In response to President Biden’s government-mandated Project Labor Agreements (PLA) Executive Order, Congress introduced the AGC-supported Fair and Open Competition Act, which would preserve open competition and federal government neutrality towards the labor relations of contractors on federal and federally funded construction projects.