Looks like a slush fund for state governments. You know how you guys wined abut lack of spending accountability with Trump
However, unlike the Recovery Act or the CARES Act, the bill did not provide for coordinated, independent oversight of this funding. The
bill exhorted federal agencies “to establish sufficient transparency, accountability reporting and oversight measures” for specific programs (such as the digital equity grant program related to broadband). But as Professor Jetson Leder-Luis
points out, the bill did not focus on the potential for fraud, and “the word fraud appeared only seven times in the 2000-page bill.”
Fighting fraud, waste, and abuse—the infrastructure bill and lessons for the future
$10 Billion to Create a ‘Civilian Climate Corp’
$20 Billion to ‘Advance Racial Equity and Environmental Justice’
The Most Wasteful Infrastructure Bill Ever? - Competitive Enterprise Institute