We’ve got infrastructure under construction with funding by other means because of Obama’s political game playing. Canada is paying the entire cost of a new bridge over the Detroit river. Rick Snyder asked for $250 million for related infrastructure on our side of the river and Obama said he would only approve it if we give $100 million of it to Detroit pension funds.
Snyder said “No thank you” and started the project without federal approval or funds. We’ll pay ourselves back and the feds can wait on the revenue generated.
Texas is doing something similar - but then we have a history of doing that when the Feds won’t live up to their responsibilities. Won’t fund highways? Fine, we’ll make toll roads and then laugh when the Feds look stupid and inept by a simple quality comparison between said road and the crap they specified but wouldn’t pay for.
And we’ve been doing it since 1953.