And, if you recall, we had years of Continuing Resolutions after that, so that spend was baked in for years. We should have the best highways, bridges, trains, airports, pipelines, waterways, all the way down to the local level.
All the while my small town starts turning our crumbling paved streets back into gravel.
re: All the while my small town
Get the Feds out of transportation.
The interstate highway system is done. Mission Accomplished.
Let the states take over all gas, oil, tire, airport and other transportation taxes. What is needed now is maintenance and a few connectors and spurs.
The Feds should focus on terrorism, cybercrime and bigger things than maintenance.