America's Infrastructure Is CRUMBLING — How Tariffs Made Rebuilding Impossible | George Conway

Описание: The moment protection became paralysis.
The great irony of protectionist trade policy is that it often damages precisely what it claims to protect. American leaders announce ambitious infrastructure plans with genuine fanfare, promising to rebuild the roads, bridges, and water systems that have deteriorated through decades of underinvestment. The need is real and visible to anyone who has driven on American highways or crossed aging bridges. What those same leaders rarely explain is how tariffs on steel and aluminum — imposed in the name of strengthening American industry — have made the very infrastructure they promise to rebuild dramatically more expensive and in many cases economically impossible.
In this analysis, I examine how twenty-five percent tariffs on essential construction materials have transformed every infrastructure project into a budget crisis, why treating Canada as a national security threat defies both logic and the entire history of the bilateral relationship, and what happens when the same funding now buys fewer bridges, fewer miles of road, and fewer water system upgrades than it would have at pre-tariff prices. This isn't about trade statistics or industrial policy abstractions — it's about communities waiting for infrastructure their leaders promised to deliver while costs spiral beyond what budgets can accommodate, and about the workers who were supposed to benefit finding themselves without projects to build because policies that claimed to protect them made building needlessly expensive.
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