U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) recently made his thoughts known about the new federal infrastructure bill.
President Joe Biden signed the $1 trillion bill on Nov. 15. It will provide billions in funding to update roads, bridges and transit systems across the country, according to NPR News.
According to Government Technology, Toomey commented on the infrastructure bill, calling it “too expensive, too expansive, too unpaid for and too threatening to the innovative cryptocurrency economy.” He also noted that it was politically motivated and that money was directed to things in excess.
Toomey was displeased and said that a more reasoned approach should have been taken.
“But this process was driven by Democratic political imperatives rather than necessity,” Toomey said, according to Government Technology. “As a result, much of the bill’s spending on actual infrastructure is excessive — such as the $107 billion for transit, even as nearly $40 billion in transit ‘COVID’ money remains unspent. Worse, the bill funnels billions to projects that the private sector has been more than willing to fund, such as ferries, EV charging stations and the power grid. It also showers taxpayer dollars on items, like Pacific salmon conservation, tree planting and demolishing ‘racist’ highways, that cannot be considered infrastructure at all.”
National Review reports that the Congressional Budget Office, which is nonpartisan, estimates that the bill will add $256 billion to the federal deficit over the next decade.
