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In his 2016 book, Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America, Donald J. Trump argued for a “massive rebuilding of our infrastructure.” As he wrote,

Too many bridges have become dangerous, our roads are decaying and full of potholes, while traffic jams are costing millions in lost income for drivers who have jobs in congested cities. Public transit is overcrowded and unreliable and our airports must be rebuilt. You go to countries like China and many others and you look at their train systems and their public transport. It’s so much better. We’re like a third-world country.

Trump was accurate in his assessment. The infrastructure in the United States is abysmal for such a rich country. But in his first administration, Trump did nothing to address the country’s infrastructure needs. US infrastructure earned a C- grade from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) at the end of the first Trump administration.

The Biden administration passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which the

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