Look at SLC they are just completing a quarter billion dollar Federal Courthouse thanks to Hatch. The NSA complex was a few billion in construction and another large federal payroll.
Lee is on the losing end of the economic argument in Utah and he most likely will be defeated either by a well known establishment type like Leavitt in the caucuses or Matheson in the general.
This is why the Republican Establishment is just as dangerous and as worthless as the Democrats. The day of reckoning is coming soon.