More than 60,000 projects are slated to receive funding from 2021’s bipartisan infrastructure bill, with every state budget in the country counting on a piece of the $1.2 trillion law.
Republicans are now plotting how to use their new Washington trifecta to cut spending and implement the rest of the Trump agenda — using the reconciliation process and the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency to help identify targets — but it’s very likely infrastructure projects won’t be on anyone’s list of things to cut.
“I wouldn’t be looking to find a lot of savings there, except by reducing regulations to reduce the cost of some of those things,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer, who was one of 19 Republicans to support the infrastructure bill.