Mark Gongloff, Columnist

January’s Infrastructure Dreams Face Harsh June Reality

Democrats and the markets expected a flood of spending. So far, they haven’t gotten a trickle.

We’re on a bridge to nowhere.

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Because we live in the dumbest timeline, our government is desperately trying to figure out how to pay to fix our crumbling infrastructure, when the bond market is begging to lend it money at basically 0% interest. But here we are.