Mitch Landrieu, Biden’s Infrastructure Czar, Moves to Presidential Campaign

WILMINGTON, Del. — Mitch Landrieu, the coordinator of President Biden’s ambitious infrastructure program, is stepping down from his post to help lead the president’s re-election campaign, the White House said in a statement on Monday.

“Mitch has always known that the real measure of success is not about scoring partisan points — it’s about building bridges, and fixing the problem at hand,” Mr. Biden said in the statement. He added, “Mitch has consistently demonstrated that when we work together, we can do big things.”

The $1 trillion infrastructure package that Mr. Biden pushed through Congress with bipartisan support in 2021 is among the key accomplishments that he hopes to sell to voters to win another term.

Mr. Landrieu will aim to rejuvenate a presidential campaign stumbling over lingering voter frustration about Mr. Biden’s performance and the economy. Natalie Quillian, the White House deputy chief of staff, will take over Mr. Landrieu’s duties overseeing the implementation of the infrastructure package.

”Mitch Landrieu brings unique and valuable experience to this fight,” Julie Chávez Rodríguez, Mr. Biden’s campaign manager, said in a statement. “His work at the White House to lift up how President Biden is investing in America and rebuilding the backbone of our economy is critical to our re-election effort.”

Mr. Landrieu, a former mayor of New Orleans and a former lieutenant governor of Louisiana, has been an indefatigable champion of public works projects across the country, coordinating the rebuilding of roads, bridges and other infrastructure. He has promoted the historic scope of the program and noted that the Biden administration was spending in Republican areas as well as in Democratic ones. He traveled 119,000