They’ll have to resort to far more blatant methods. Withholding highway money is far and away the easiest thing for them to do to compel compliance. Getting Interstate highway funding away from having to be dependent on FedGov to pay you what they’re supposed to is a huge step in the right direction.
It’s also a step back towards the original intent in the Constitution. Originally, all government made highways were tollways in the US. You may know them better by their original name - turnpikes. When the Constitution talks about Congress’ power “...to establish post roads,” the Framers meant turnpikes.
“They’ll have to resort to far more blatant methods. Withholding highway money is far and away the easiest thing for them to do to compel compliance.”
And they won’t. Do you have any clue what Houston has to go through to get a chemical plant ‘approved’ by DC? And it has nothing to do with highway funds...it simply is the law.