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by tzs 323 days ago
Nonsense. It was working fine and following close to the expected schedule. Numerous states had submitted their proposals for how they would use the money, those had been reviewed and approved, and the states were accepting bids from companies to do the construction and starting to select and approve them.

Delaware, Louisiana, and Nevada had selected contractors and passed final federal review and were ready to start construction as soon as the funds were disbursed.

Another 40 had contractors selected and were just waiting for final federal review to complete and funds to be disbursed. If the program had not been changed by the Trump administration most of them would have had construction starting this year.

All large efforts like this take a few years to go from initial passing of the law that enables them to construction actually starting.

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Bug: Closed. Works as designed.