@SecretaryPete We're facing a trillion-dollar backlog of roads, bridges, and other pieces of crumbli

[soothsayer]

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Secretary Pete Buttigieg
@SecretaryPete
We're facing a trillion-dollar backlog of roads, bridges, and other pieces of crumbling infrastructure.

That's not just a challenge—it's an opportunity to create jobs and help more Americans access safe, affordable transportation, no matter where they're from.

[Hekate]

1. Thank you, Secretary Pete. I think every bridge in this country by now is only standing because...

...of the termites holding hands through the rust.

People in Public Works have known about the bridges for close to 40 years, but it costs money to upgrade this stuff, and someone has to have the guts to lay out the tax plans and push it through.

And Howard Jarvis, among others, promised us that we didn't have to pay taxes because reasons.

[Baked Potato]

2. Exactly! Need Senate tours and film on location.

Show Americans how bad it is up close. Start in Red states.

[Hekate]

3. There have been a couple of spectacular failures, lives lost, shocking stuff, and then life goes on

Never fails to amaze me.

[Baked Potato]

5. Yes, now is the time to act. The can has been kicked

long enough. Maybe rebuilding will help bring the country together.

[modrepub]

4. Money Should Be Focused on High Use/High Population Areas First

Tired of building roads to nowhere in sparsely populated states just for "economic development". If your area has declining populations then quit using the Federal coffers to support a infrastructure system that are under utilized. Too much money has been claimed by rural politicians to build roads in districts with insufficient tax revenue to maintain them.

[Blue Owl]

6. K&R

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. 500 billion taken from the Defense Fund for two years and there is your $$

It's time to slow the spending of tax money on things that kill people.

[crimycarny]

8. Good idea!

Military budget grossly bloated. Pay the personnel but stop wasting trillions on weapons of war that either don’t work or aren’t needed (we already have a surplus). So much waste.

[Ferrets are Cool]

11. +1

[SheltieLover]

9. K&R!

[BobTheSubgenius]

10. This problem has been known about since the 1980s.

If not the 1970s. I remember seeing a segment about it on 60 Minutes. Rebar visible in crumbling support columns under the Brooklyn Bridge. Scary as hell.

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12. This is the kind of thing it is OK to borrow for

but once built they and the rest of the roads and bridges to have to be maintained. That is what any increased revenue devoted to this project should pay for.