When President Joe Biden recently announced a $2.3 trillion spending plan, on the heels of the nearly $2 trillion bailout bill enacted in March, some Democrats in Washington complained. Their complaints: The price tag was not big enough, and the Washington power grab was not ambitious enough.

These are the same folks who, since taking back the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018, have presided over roughly $9 trillion being added to the national debt, which is more than the combined deficits under all previous 72 years of Republican majorities in the House. At $2.3 trillion, the cost of what the president is proposing for his so-called “infrastructure” plan is four times what the country spent in today’s dollars to build the national interstate highway system. Clearly, Biden will never be able to spend enough to satisfy Washington Democrats. But that does not mean he will not try.