“Can you imagine the interest all that money is getting. I would guess a couple more miles could be built?!?!”
I am writhing with excitement and anticipation.
I suspect that Mick Mulvaney coming to be White House Chief of Staff is a good sign for being able to squeeze some money out the Federal Government. He has been studying it in detail for the last two years, as the head of the Office of Management and Budget, that oversees the whole Federal structure and budget. He, out of everyone, should have some idea where the bodies are buried.
They have known they were going to need a significant pile of funds around the mid-term point, all along. It takes a while to get everything ready for a big, complex project like this, and then they need to have a good bit of time to get a lot built, so this was always going to be the point where they needed to go into full scale construction.
They seem to have purchased the sections in bulk. Many are distributed along the way. Just keep those American steel mills hot & producing. (Great for the economy). Note the other structural project are not even mentioned — no competition in getting materials when needed !