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    WHY CAN’T WE BUILD ANYTHING?

    Feb 17, 2022 4 minutes
    KATHERINE MANGU-WARD

    “WE’RE GOING TO fix them all,” President Joe Biden vowed, awkwardly showing up to give a speech promoting his $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill just hours after Pittsburgh’s Fern Hollow Bridge collapsed in January. “We’re sending the money.”

    It is true that the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act includes $40 billion in funding to improve the nation’s 43,000 bridges, though that’s a relatively small amount compared to the $156 billion it includes for mass transit and rail (on top of the $70 billion that went to mass transit in pandemic relief), plus the hundreds of billions in additional spending on broadband, green energy, and other stuff that only looks like infrastructure if you squint.

    But it’s not true that Washington is actually “sending

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