The federal government’s ‘slow rolling fiasco’
American roads are crumbling and that looks like something that isn’t going to be fixed anytime soon.
Judge Glock has written a great piece worth highlighting over at City Journal: “Biden’s Progressive Infrastructure Boondoggle.”
Instead of fixing what’s broken, Washington turned the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) into a progressive grab bag for pet projects and dubious causes. Very little progress has been made in fixing our roads and bridges from this legislation.
A snippet from his article:
Progressive demands required the spending to include bicycle paths, stormwater diversion projects, a diversity and inclusion outreach committee, participation goals for minority-owned businesses, contributions to a bat-conservation fund, a salvage and relocation effort for local mussels, peregrine falcon inspections to ensure that none was nearby at the start of construction, facade improvements in Covington’s Lewisburg historic district, refurbishment of original lettering on a historic freight building—and so on.
Glock’s entire write-up is a perfect snapshot of Washington dysfunction and the betrayal of American interests and needs. A $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill became less about roads and bridges and more about social engineering and symbolism, while the national debt hurtles past $37 trillion.
— The Federalism Beat