A favorite Beltway pastime is to sell voters on the idea of building roads and bridges and then quietly allocate much of the funding to alternative energy start-ups and other economic marginalia. Usually taxpayers have to wait years after the enactment of an infrastructure plan to learn just how little infrastructure they got for their money. But now it appears that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) is doing taxpayers a modest favor by outlining the misspending to come from Washington’s next big deal. The Speaker...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 22, 2019 20:44 UTC