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Great. That's about 5 trillion less than we need. The US Army Corps of Engineers estimates we need 3 trillion just for emergency repair projects.
Source?
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/30/politics/infrastructure-us-investment-cost-engineers/index.html
My memory turned 2.6 into 3. But yeah, we're not even keeping up maintenance.
In fairness, if you ask people of basically any industry whether their industry needs more money, they will always say yes. Teachers will always say we're not spending enough on education, police will always say we're not spending enough on police, business owners will always say we're not spending enough on them, etc.
And yet teachers have to buy school supplies out of their own pay, and we have news footage of collapsing infrastructure.
Teachers shouldn't have to do that.
No they shouldn't. My point is some of these industries really do need more funding.
That seems like a total bullshit number. The closest thing I can find is from 2021 where a report from the Congressional Research Service mentioned a $109 billion project backlog for the Army Corps of Engineers.
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11945/2
Edit:
OP confused "Army Corps of Engineers" and "American Society of Civil Engineers". He also exaggerated the bit about "emergency repairs" and neglected to mention that the $3 trillion figure was for spending over the course of a decade.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/30/politics/infrastructure-us-investment-cost-engineers/index.html
Then you didn't look very hard.
That's the "American Society of Civil Engineers", not the "US Army Corps of Engineers" like your original comment said. It's also not "emergency repairs". $2.6 trillion is the amount that needs to be paid for over the next 10 years to keep things in "good repair". The $1.2 trillion takes us a little less than halfway there. Toss in the federal and local budgets for transportation and that's another $4 trillion over the next 10 years. More than likely more money will be made available in the next decade for additional projects.
The budget was for a decade of spending. That's how it got to be over a trillion dollars in the first place. Depending on future appropriations that may or may not occur isn't policy, it's just wishing.
And yeah my memory was a little fuzzy. But it's not exactly painting a rosy picture.