In all 8 years of the Obama terror I only saw the courthouse in Honolulu refurbished. 8 trillion dollars for a single courthouse. (When I lived on the island)
The money in Tennessee was used on existing projects under way or soon to start. Money being fungible, the existing appropriation funds were saved for future projects.
Most notably, Tennessee has a continuous interstate highway resurfacing program. The signs on those new projects went up quickly on the sections of interstate scheduled and contracted for resurfacing. There were other projects but the most noticeable were for work on the interstates.
Tennessee as a Republican governor