Never letting a crisis go to waste, Washington is reportedly weighing a federal jobs program in response to the coronavirus. President Trump, always keen to turn his dreams of an “Infrastructure Week” into reality, has wholeheartedly endorsed the idea, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who had already floated a discount version of a Green New Deal to respond to the pandemic, is apparently on board.

It’s the perfect picture of what bipartisanship means today: an expensive and unnecessary solution in search of a problem.