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 s
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and also, suspicion of the government. suspicion that the government wasn t telling them everything they needed to know when it came to this what ultimately ended up being fake cancer cure called and that reminded me a lot about the distrust we heard at the cdc, during all of the covid epidemic. so was really a lot of fun as an ear to play with and there was a lot of running. i m sure people always ask you how can you have a demanding career and be the father of two teenagers and crank up bestselling books. what are your writing secrets? so the secret is just one i have a running situation, when i have a writing project, i am just very focused. the first thing i do, i m an architect, george are our martin said writers are either architects, gardeners, gardeners go and see what s flourished. architects have structure, they said it all up. i m an architect. they definitely said it all up. do an outline. then i break it up into chapters. and then i know what my meant. is the next ch
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it was a wild time. they say history doesn t repeat itself. there s a lot of rhyming when it came to the distrust and disillusionment so many americans felt, post-watergate and post-vietnam. and suspicion that the government wasn t telling them everything they needed to know, when a it was this fake cancer cure. that reminded me of the distrust of the cdc during the covid epidemic. it was fun as an era to play with. i m sure people can you, how can you have a commanding career, and be the father of teenagers and crank out best-selling books. when i have a writing situation, when i have a writing project, i m focused. i m an architect. george r.r. martin says writers aregardeners.
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