This was supposed to be infrastructure summer. The Senate voted to advance a bipartisan piece of legislation funding roads, bridges, and other traditional brick-and-mortar projects alongside a Democrats-only reconciliation bill chock-full of liberal policy priorities.

That’s $1.2 trillion the two parties largely agree on and another $3.5 trillion to be passed through a divided Congress with Democratic votes alone. But then, Afghanistan came and pushed everything else out of the headlines.