The Bill that has been passed is barely enough to complete emergency repairs. If this is the best result that bipartisanship can manage then hard questions have to be asked whether another four years are squandered whilst significant infrastructure that was past its expected useful life roughly 20 years ago degrades further... or whether a more drastic approach is taken.

Functioning infrastructure in a country is a key facet of the country's ability to support the military in an old fashioned brute force approach, let alone economic war. And one could easily say that this is an emergency.

If it is an emergency, then perhaps utilise emergency powers and divert money from the military (or resources) to start repairing the infrastructure.