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So what if a few projects take money and go nowhere. GND was an infrastructure bill for the most part. The country's infrastructure is crumbling so might as well invest in new green infrastructure while employing the people who have been abandoned when all the factories closed down. (The situation in 2018/2019 when this bill was proposed was different than post-pandemic decoupling from China).

The legacy of GND is that it helped influence the Inflation Reduction Act so we sort of got to an extremely watered down version of what the original vision was.