Ernst Hits the Brakes on Biden’s Boondoggle Gravy Trains
“While the president likes to boast that his $1 trillion ‘infrastructure’ bill is building a better America, the truth is Bidenomics and bureaucratic bungling are busting budgets and postponing projects across the country.”
WASHINGTON — As President Biden announces his re-election bid, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is pumping the brakes on his boondoggle gravy trains, including California’s High-Speed train costing about $1.8 million a day over the next decade and the extension of a rail service in San Francisco that is costing more than $5 billion per mile to construct, putting it on track to be one of the costliest transit projects in the world.
“While the president boasts that his $1 trillion ‘infrastructure’ bill is building a better America, the truth is Bidenomics and bureaucratic bungling are busting budgets and postponing projects across the country,” said Ernst. “A billion dollars over budget is not a rounding error, it’s the very definition of a train wreck. As the Senate’s biggest foe of wasteful spending, I won’t sit idly by as taxpayers are railroaded by Biden’s Boondoggle Express.”
Background:
To protect taxpayer dollars, Ernst successfully inserted a provision into Biden’s infrastructure bill requiring the Department of Transportation to keep track of projects being paid for by taxpayers that are a billion dollars over budget or behind schedule.
Now, Ernst is doubling down on her transparency efforts by introducing the bipartisan Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act that would expand accountability requirements to every taxpayer-funded project, along with the Put the Brakes on Boondoggles Act that would bring each of these runaway trains to a halt.
Ernst also awarded her April 2023 Squeal Award to President Biden for his failed track record on infrastructure.
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