>> which we are we going? >> reporter: mayor darnell waites showed us baker's challenges. >> everything that i do is infrastructure. >> reporter: you know what the problems are, why don't you just fix it? >> it takes money. and there's a lot of other things that are going on at the same time. you want infrastructure, but you want to be safe. 50% of my budget is public safety, and everything else goes towards infrastructure. >> reporter: where is that money going to come from? >> well, revenue, but basically come it comes from state government and federal funding. >> reporter: in 2021, congress allocated more than $1 trillion to rebuild america's infrastructures. louisiana republican senator bill cassidy was instrumental in negotiating that deal. >> if you're talking about communities that are in genuine need of significant infrastructure help, if these communities are complaining, that the federal government has not stepped up, how would you respond? >> during the covid epidemic, billions were sent to state and