T&I Members Question Secretary Buttigieg on IIJA Implementation, EV Policies, High-Speed Rail Funding & More at Oversight Hearing
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Issues: Budget, Spending and Taxes
" I heard during IIJA [Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act] debate and, of course, it being signed into law, all these people celebrating the increase in investment. Mr. Secretary, if project costs are tripling it's hard for me to understand how this is a win with all the other investments that were made, spending trillions and trillions of dollars that devalued the dollar that have contributed to energy costs going up. And now, we can't even build the projects we were building before. And the way I look at it is any perceived increase in investment under IIJA is actually a decrease based on what we're seeing at home "
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