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Duffy Celebrates an $8.4 Million Rural Infrastructure Investment in Monroe County, Wisconsin, Mar. 14, 2026

March 14, 2026 · US Department of Transportation · 0:21:48

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What happened

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy traveled to Monroe County, Wisconsin, to celebrate an $8.4 million rural infrastructure investment, in the Department of Transportation’s March 14, 2026 upload of the event. Congressman Derrick Van Orden joined the Secretary, and local officials hosting the event said the secured $8.4 million would fund significant improvements to a county road that had long needed them, as they stated it. Speakers framed the award as rural communities’ share of infrastructure money — a counter, in their telling, to tax dollars being funneled into mega-projects in the state’s urban southeast, as one state official put it from the stage.

Why it matters

The Monroe County event is the grant-delivery end of Duffy’s infrastructure agenda: a named dollar figure, for a named county road, delivered in person by the Secretary with the district’s congressman. Small-dollar rural awards of this kind are the visible distribution of the department’s surface-transportation money between the headline aviation announcements.

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Sources: U.S. Department of Transportation, “Secretary Duffy Celebrates $8.4M Rural Infrastructure Investment” (official upload, embedded above). Remarks and figures as stated by the event’s speakers.