The factions will respond as follows to proposed additional infrastructure spending:
- CLs: Ugh! Starve the beast! Starve the beast!
- PBPs: Anything that promotes future growth is fine with us. If it involves privatization, that’s the icing on the cake.
- CDs: Works for us.
- Reactionaries: Sounds like a good way to #MAGA. Some underemployed white men might get better jobs out of it, too.
The CLs control enough votes to prevent a bill with large amounts of additional federal spending from being approved. As a result, there are only two ways to get legislation through the system: either water down the federal involvement to the point that the bill is meaningless; or push it through with Democratic support and split the GOP. My guess is that neither will happen.