The spending in the infrastructure bill is outrageous

Published August 5, 2021 12:00am ET



Yet another infrastructure bill is making its way through Congress — and this one is a classic example of what a bloated bureaucracy will do while Democrats are in power. H.R. 3684, the Invest in America Act, proposes a whopping $550 billion in new spending.

Pitched as a “bipartisan” effort to aid the United States, the 2,000-plus page Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was crafted by a group of Republican and Democratic senators, and it is rumored to pass.

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