$1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Spending- Name One Project

[rightwinger]

Wildlife crossings and the $350 million for them is in the bill. I read the bill, have you? Congress posted it online for anyone to read.

OK

Measures in Infrastructure Bill Would Help Fish and Wildlife

From California to West Virginia, efforts are underway to conserve and restore fish and wildlife migration corridors and habitat.

www.pewtrusts.org

$350 million over five years—for state, local, and tribal governments to construct wildlife crossings over and under roads. Such crossings are proven to reduce human and animal fatalities and injuries caused by the more than 1 million wildlife-vehicle collisions that occur each year.


Seems reasonable
Makes our roadways safer

 

[Meister]

Roads and bridges​

The bill provides $110 billion to repair the nation's aging highways, bridges and roads. According to the White House, 173,000 total miles of America's highways and major roads and 45,000 bridges are in poor condition. And the almost $40 billion for bridges is the single largest dedicated bridge investment since the construction of the interstate highway system, according to the Biden administration.

Public transit​

The $39 billion for public transit in the legislation expands transportation systems, improves accessibility for people with disabilities and provides dollars to state and local governments to buy zero-emission and low-emission buses. The Department of Transportation estimates that the current repair backlog is more than 24,000 buses, 5,000 rail cars, 200 stations and thousands of miles of track and power systems.

Passenger and freight rail​

To reduce Amtrak's maintenance backlog, which has worsened since Superstorm Sandy nine years ago, the bill provides $66 billion to improve the rail service's 457-mile-long Northeast Corridor as well as other routes. It's less than the $80 billion Mr. Biden — who famously rode Amtrak from Delaware to D.C. during his time in the Senate — originally asked for, but it would be the largest federal investment in passenger rail service since Amtrak was founded 50 years ago.

Electric vehicles​

The bill spends $7.5 billion for electric vehicle charging stations, which the administration says are critical to accelerating the use of electric vehicles to curb climate change. It also provides $5 billion for the purchase of electric school buses and hybrids, reducing reliance on school buses that run on diesel fuel.

Internet access​

The legislation's $65 billion for broadband access aims to improve internet services for rural areas, low-income families and tribal communities. Most of the money would be made available through grants to states.

Electric grid​

To protect against the widespread power outages that have become more frequent in recent years, the bill spends $65 billion to improve the reliability and resiliency of the nation's power grid. It also boosts carbon capture technologies and more environmentally-friendly electricity sources like clean hydrogen.

Airports​

The bill spends $25 billion to improve runways, gates and taxiways at airports and to improve terminals. It would also improve infrastructure at air traffic control facilities.

Water and wastewater​

To improve the safety of the nation's drinking water, the legislation will spend $55 billion on water and wastewater infrastructure. The bill includes $15 billion to replace lead pipes and $10 billion to address water contamination from polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS — chemicals that were used in the production of Teflon and have also been used in firefighting foam, water-repellent clothing and many other items.



This is from your article.

I'm not sure how they decide which project to pick or if they give X amount of dollars to every project.

It could just be that they give it to the states and the states decide which projects to spend it on. A percentage would go to roads, another to airports, etc.

That doesn't come close to covering the 1.2 TRILLION package, where is the rest of the money going????

 

[bendog]

There once was a time when republicans thought roads and bridges and water and electricity were social good investments. Wait, Trump said that!

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Specifics about how money is spent on a federal bill?

That is not how things are done, I can vouch for that, no, no, no.

As could anyone with more than half a brain.

Money cannot be spent till contracts are submitted and accepted. Details cannot be given till this takes place.

Does the DOD give a specific list of how every single dollar will be spent when they submit their budget?

 

[Votto]

As could anyone with more than half a brain.

Money cannot be spent till contracts are submitted and accepted. Details cannot be given till this takes place.

Does the DOD give a specific list of how every single dollar will be spent when they submit their budget?

Right, we can just trust the democrats to do the right thing with all that money

There, that was easy.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Right, we can just trust the democrats to do the right thing with all that money

There, that was easy.

Why not, you blindly trust the Repubs to do the right thing and they are no different than the Dems.

 

[Votto]

Why not, you blindly trust the Repubs to do the right thing and they are no different than the Dems.

Not at all.

When democrats are in power the push for spending as the GOP complains, cuz they want the money to play with themselves. And when the GOP is in power the opposite happens. I even remember the DNC said they country could not afford a few billion in spending on the wall when Trump was in power LOL. But if you are not Trump, you usually get the spending and is why the US now has the biggest debt in human history, no checks and balances and no party to put a stop to it.

So the object is to outspend the other party every year.

 

[rightwinger]

That doesn't come close to covering the 1.2 TRILLION package, where is the rest of the money going????

Upgrading water systems, high speed internet, rail upgrades, EV infrastructure, modernization of ports

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Not at all.

When democrats are in power the push for spending as the GOP complains, cuz they want the money to play with themselves. And when the GOP is in power the opposite happens. That's why the US now has the biggest debt in human history, no checks and balances and no party to put a stop to it.

So the object is to outspend the other party every year.

and you keep voting them into office and then whine about it.

 

[Votto]

and you keep voting them into office and then whine about it.

How is voting going to stop it?

Voting is for other issues, like children being raped in public school bathrooms cuz the DNC decided to make them gender neutral

You know, insane stuff like that.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

How is voting going to stop it?

Then stop whining about it when you chosen party is not in power, it just makes you look like a hypocrite.

 

[bendog]

Right, we can just trust the democrats to do the right thing with all that money

There, that was easy.

How do you think the Highway Trust Fund works with maintaining interstates? And roughly half the states are run by gopers.

 

[Votto]

How do you think the Highway Trust Fund works with maintaining interstates? And roughly half the states are run by gopers.

Do you seriously think that any conservative worth their salt is going to defend how corrupt the system has become? Only brain dead partisan hacks, like Biden supporters, think that only one party is corrupt.

It is only liberals who refer to the General Welfare clause in the Constitution regarding how government should be able to exponentially expand and spend like a drunken sailor. However, it is a pity for them that James Madison, who wrote the General Welfare clause, let us know that this is NOT what it was put in the Constitution for.

Yet they persist.

Here is what Madison said about it.

“If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress... Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America.”​

 

[BluesLegend]

There once was a time when republicans thought roads and bridges and water and electricity were social good investments. Wait, Trump said that!

We still do, unfortunately only a fraction of the Dem bill is for that. The rest is PORK and kickbacks to the Dem party, shocker.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Do you seriously think that any conservative worth their salt is going to defend how corrupt the system has become?

They do defend the system in the voting booth. Voting for the system to continue is giving it your approval.

 

[rightwinger]

We still do, unfortunately only a fraction of the Dem bill is for that. The rest is PORK and kickbacks to the Dem party, shocker.

More misinformation and fear mongering from Republicans to justify why they opposed infrastructure investment in their districts.

I don’t think it will work

 

[Votto]

They do defend the system in the voting booth. Voting for the system to continue is giving it your approval.

My favorite are judges running for office with no one opposing them

I mean really, is the judge himself not going to cast one vote for himself to win?

LOL.

Maybe soon all candidates will run like this.

But that is the illusion of democracy. You got to vote so shut up and accept it.

And hey, isn't democracy wonderful?

 

[bendog]

How is voting going to stop it?

Voting is for other issues, like children being raped in public school bathrooms cuz the DNC decided to make them gender neutral

You know, insane stuff like that.

Of all the spending, why would you possibly bitch about this? I mean seriously. A supermaj of senators agree that we need to upgrade just to keep the econ going, let alone growing.

I'm happy to bitch along with Trumpsters over the cost of W's wars, and Obama's only ending one of them. The welfare to farmers for tariffs. Count me in. Immigration is harder, but I'm certainly against Biden's letting people requesting refugee status to stay. Trump did not decrease the number of illegal immigrants here, but .... the gop elite didn't want him to. I'm all for arresting new arrivals and sending them, their current kids, and unborn children back over the border ... quickly

 

[Harpy Eagle]

But that is the illusion of democracy. You got to vote so shut up and accept it.

And hey, isn't democracy wonderful?

It does not have to be that way, it is that way because we allow it to be.

 

[bendog]

More misinformation and fear mongering from Republicans to justify why they opposed infrastructure investment in their districts.

I don’t think it will work

yeah, they bitch, but when questioned about why ... they fold.

Now paying for every american to have four weeks vacation .... or free college beyond the free community college they pretty much get now .....

But infrastructure?

Their real bitch is trump lost but trump had weekly infrastucture week