If anything it makes Pat Toomey look like a fool. He voted against infrastructure and it looks like it is desperately needed in the state. Originally Posted by CaptainTruthAu contraire, Pat Toomey is one of the few people in Congress who haven’t sold their souls for pork to benefit their constituents and donors. The infrastructure bill did include $40 billion for bridges. But it also included money for lots of other stuff. For example, around 200 billion for green energy and greenhouse gas reduction.
Toomey might have voted for the bill if it were less wasteful and actually only included funding for needed infrastructure like bridges.
I don’t know jack about the bridge. If it was for a state or county highway, then the federal government had no business helping to maintain it anyway. The power of the purse and governmental oversight should be closest to the people, meaning at the state and local level if feasible.
Toomey’s possibly our smartest Senator. Too bad he’s not running for re-election.