President Trump was at his most somber in his otherwise optimistic speech to Congress last week when he spoke about the misplaced spending priorities of his predecessors and of Congress.

“We’ve financed and built one global project after another, but ignored the fates of our children in the inner cities… We’ve defended the borders of other nations while leaving our own borders wide open for anyone to cross and for drugs to pour in at a now unprecedented rate… And we’ve spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas, while our infrastructure at home has so badly crumbled.”