We have reached the point where our government is ready to collapse under the weight of its own corruption. A symptom of this is the inability to achieve anything because there are too many corrupt fingers in the pie. You can witness this on a smaller scale with state public works that never seem to end. To wit, the Francis Scott Key bridge will never be rebuilt to its former glory, if they even manage to rebuild it at all.
It’s all about profit margin on building and maintaining systems. The fact that ten more Ford class carriers are funded tells it all. They are nothing but obsolete targets now but we’ll continue to build them.