Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: What It Means

I read the 2000 page bill so you don't have to. Here's what I like and what I don't.

Yes, I read the bill. Yes, it’s boring. Yes, it could change your life.

After what feels like several hundred infrastructure weeks, it’s finally the Infrastructure Week, the one where I get to be exasperated about H.R.3684 aka the “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.” (IIJA or BIF, Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework, which is an acronym I won’t write again.) Here’s the good news: for what it is, it’s a pretty good bill. The bad news? We’re nowhere near what it needs to be. What do I mean? Despite a trillion dollars over five years, we don’t know how to spend a trillion dollars, on projects that aren’t just building more roads. The success of this bill depends on how well we’ve identified just the problem we’re trying to solve. If we don’t get out in front of the authorization, we’ll have illustrated that we’re a country bent on road-building, suburbanization, the effects of which, environmental disaster and racial injustice, will become self-evident.

What It Says

T4America’s tweet/…