Trump Kicks Off Potentially Messy Fight Over Biden's Infrastructure Money

Thursday, January 23, 2025

One of Trump's executive orders could imperil billions in funding for projects that states have already begun working on, some experts said.

Posted by jpw at 07:33 AM | 11 COMMENTS | permalink

For anyone wondering what impact Trump's executive order on energy is likely to have on Inflation Reduction Act spending, this is one of the better rundowns I've seen so far. www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol ...

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-- Adam Radwanski (@aradwanski.bsky.social) January 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM

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C'mom "c-c-conservatives," show us how much you really believe in the constitution. Come out against this power grab that is clearly unconstitutional.

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2025-01-22 04:29 PM

C'mom "c-c-conservatives," show us how much you really believe in the constitution. Come out against this power grab that is clearly unconstitutional.

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2025-01-22 04:29 PM | Reply

Trump tried to overthrow the Constitution and the rule of law already. What makes you think they care about this??

#2 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-22 04:45 PM

Gee who has been telling you this would happen for months/years?

Oh yeah, me.

Just a reminder that the richest man in the world and the largest government contractor has an office in the White House.

No, no corruption to see here.

#3 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-22 05:09 PM

"Potentially"????

LOL!

#4 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-01-23 07:44 AM

We are creating jobs and making our economy and infrastructure stronger by not spending this money. I will immediately send a bill to Congress to complete all these projects in record time, at only twice the cost. The bill will have my name on it, not Sleepy Joe's name...
--King Dotard II

#5 | Posted by catdog at 2025-01-23 09:26 AM

Cali's high speed rail, rural internet, EV charging stations etc., we're not getting value for the hundreds of billions being spent.

#6 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-23 12:11 PM

Cali's high speed rail, rural internet, EV charging stations etc., we're not getting value for the hundreds of billions being spent.

#6 | Posted by visitor_

Wait til you see the cost of climate change. Green power will seem like peanuts

#7 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-23 02:31 PM

Cali's high speed rail, rural internet, EV charging stations etc., we're not getting value for the hundreds of billions being spent.

#6 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

Doesn't justify this violation of separation of powers.

#8 | Posted by jpw at 2025-01-23 02:41 PM

Cali's high speed rail, rural internet, EV charging stations etc., we're not getting value for the hundreds of billions being spent.

#6 | Posted by visitor_

With nothing else, this seems like it's simply your partisan opinion.

#9 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-01-23 03:32 PM

Thing is that the majority of the money in that bill was not going for infrastructure. The dem play of naming a bill to get people behind it is the old bait-and-switch.

www.newsweek.com

#10 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-01-23 03:52 PM

Thing is that the majority of the money in that bill was not going for infrastructure. The dem play of naming a bill to get people behind it is the old bait-and-switch.

www.newsweek.com

#10 | Posted by MSgt

From your article:
"Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce, which estimated that three-quarters of the money the American Jobs Plan proposes spending over the next eight years will go toward infrastructure projects."

#11 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-01-23 03:57 PM

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