Quote:
Originally Posted by displacedinMN
the only DC related thing I will say "Biden says the US will fully pay for the reconstruction"
No shit sherlock.
Watching more video on the news. Incredible. This could have been so much worse.
But those poor road workers. Had no idea what was coming.
|
Eh, infrastructure projects are often paid for by a combination of state and federal spending, so his statement isn't a foregone conclusion. He can't technically even allocate funding for something like this - that's Congress's responsibility - so I take his statement to mean, "I'm going to push Congress to allocate 100% funding for this out of the federal budget rather than expecting Maryland to pay for some of it."