Building a stronger America: GIIA calls on US to unlock greater role for private sector capital and expertise

That’s the call-to-action from GIIA in a new video supporting United for Infrastructure’s year-long campaign, Building a Stronger America. 

Infrastructure is essential for creating jobs, improving communities, and connecting people and businesses. But stronger American infrastructure means leveraging all the available resources to finance and pay for it.   

Bringing in private sector finance and expertise – to work alongside federal, state and local governments – will get better infrastructure built more quickly, and close the gap between what American citizens want, and what the public sector alone can afford.  

GIIA’s calls-to-action to Congress and the White House come in a recent White Paper Building a New Foundation for U.S. Infrastructure, which is at the heart of the new video setting out GIIA’s policy agenda for 2026,  

Jon Phillips, chief executive of the Global Infrastructure Investor Association says: 

“Put simply, we want lawmakers to make it easier for states and cities to attract additional, private sector capital and expertise.   

“That can be achieved by reauthorizing and strengthening expiring infrastructure programs, such as surface transportation; by streamlining permitting and approval processes for big projects; by passing legislation that enables many more public private partnerships; and by maintaining and expanding the programs of the Build America Bureau, to build the capability to plan and deliver infrastructure at state and city level.” 

Explore GIIA’s White Paper here: https://giia.net/policy/building-new-foundation-us-infrastructure-giia-white-paper  

Find out more about United for Infrastructure’s Building a Stronger America campaign at https://www.unitedforinfrastructure.org/newsletters/join-us-in-building-a-stronger-america  

Watch GIIA’s video here: