Don’t believe everything you indoctrinate.
Perhaps you should focus on getting control of NJ teenagers.
They not only didn’t finish the wall they sold the wall materials that were already there ready to be put up.
The grants include nearly $2.5 billion in financing for the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, as well as nearly $1 billion through the Department of Agriculture’s Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program for six co-ops. The New ERA program, which uses $9.7 billion in Inflation Reduction Act funds, is the biggest federal investment in rural electrification since the New Deal in the 1930s
A new New Deal is happening right now.
The awards require a nonfederal match, usually of 20% and generally by the organization receiving the grant.
The American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association, a longtime proponent of the CRISI program, celebrated that 81 of the projects involve short line railroads or their partners and account for $1.29 billion, or about 52% of the dollars awarded. The ASLRRA itself was recipient of a grant worth more than $20 million to improve short line infrastructure data.
All 122 rail projects listed in link.
Honestly, now that we get to see the itemized price tags on infrastructure policies, my enthusiasm is constantly tempered with disappointment. Turns out it’s not that expensive, even when decades overdue.
Makes me wonder what the electorate was doing in the last quarter of the 20th century.
Why leave everything broke? Was it laziness? What part of this was too hard to maintain?
They built light rail here in Charlotte (still building more). I supported it. Still haven’t figured out what the federal government had to do with it. A better use of federal funds could have went to widening interstates and adding interchanges. Instead, we got tolls.
Last month, Trump criticized the initiative as “so bad” and suggested tariffs would be a better solution. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson then said his party would seek to “streamline” the law, as he walked back earlier remarks that Republicans would “probably” seek a repeal.
The Biden administration’s goal is to reach commitments for distributing as much of the money as possible before leaving office. That would generally protect companies against any changes, barring an act of Congress or compliance failures by funding recipients.
I am glad to see that finalizing grants and subsides are Biden-Harris administration’s top priority. Don’t leave unspent infrastructure funds in the hands of a Republican government.
Yeh Bidne-Harris send CHIPs money to bidne-Harris supporters (which is good).
Trump would waste it on Trump supporters, the most qualified etc. (whihcis bad.
Prediction:
all the money authorized under CHIPS will still be spent.
(It passed both House and Senate by normal means.)
The bill with the every-changing name (Inflation Reduction Act, Green spedongin buikld back better etc.) Couldn’t even pass the Senate by normal legal means and had to be cheated through using reconciliation.
That one will be a litmus test telling us whether Donald Trump is serious about spending cuts. He should have no trouble cutting spending there (if spending cuts are really what he wants.)
That chip deal is so bad,” Trump said on an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.” “We put up billions of dollars for rich companies to come in and borrow the money and build chip companies here
You are being far too generous regarding Trump. He does not understand the necessity of incentivizing domestic semiconductor production.
I’m sure, if the names were removed, there would be bipartisan agreement that it’s better to get semiconductor funding done now, before that guy takes office.
I suspect you had crappy schoolteachers who taught you to view the world in silly anti-republican sterotypes.
Trump is a big spender who,
prior to running, identified more as a Democrat and routinely remarked publicly that their (big-spending) policies tend to help the economy.
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“In many cases, I probably identify more as Democrat,” Trump told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in a 2004 interview. “It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans. Now, it shouldn’t be that way. But if you go back, I mean it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats.
I’ll bet he finds enough unspent infrastructure money to build his big, beautiful wall.
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Absolutely!
Spend some of it on something important instead of the trivia/wasteful things dems spend on.
Enhance rail along the Northeast Corridor (NEC) with $1.4 billion in funding for 19 projects
Strengthen supply chains and improve port efficiency with nearly $580 million in funding for 31 projects that will increase both the capacity and efficiency of ports in 15 states
Improve safety on our roadways with $172 million in funding to 257 local, regional, and Tribal communities for planning and demonstration projects that will help prevent deaths and serious injuries on America’s rural and urban roads, including some of the most dangerous roadways in the country.
Support domestic manufacturing of sustainable transportation materials with $1.2 billion in funding for 39 state DOTs to accelerate the use of cleaner materials that are critical to building safe and sustainable infrastructure for the future
Another three-and-a-half billion of infrastructure grants today. Good stuff. Get it done.
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More semiconductor funding finalized too.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/20/raimondo-commerce-trump-legacy-00190538
Raimondo said she recently directed staff to work through the weekend — and even made personal calls to tech CEOs — to speed the talks along.
Good to see weekend work on CHIPs. I hope the IRA and Infrastructure are getting the same treatment.
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only 1,000,000,000 american from the feds.
Allan
thats a billion they could have kept as far as I’m concerned
i am sure the commuters on the light rail feel differently.
Allan
It’s the Carolinas. Did they squat the train or something?
if you knew anything about Charlotte you would know the trains are not used all that much. They travel with only one or two train cars
Well if the people aren’t dependent on it,
that means the gov’t hasn’t spent enough on it yet.
