Let’s hope if a border wall is funded, the RFP is posted to the normal SAM system. Then that the responses received and decisions are left in the hands of an agency and professionals competent to assess with no interference. We have a robust system for this stuff. It works fine.
Please NOT rammed through with a no-bid/sweetheart deal with no public comment and dismissal of an concerns.
Otherwise, it won’t be “Yeah, American steel!” It will probably be more “line-pockets-insane-cost-overruns”. $5b sounds like a lot, even $1.7b sounds like a lot. But I promise it can be wasted with poor to terrible outcome, no problem.
That’s of course not counting the opportunity cost of spending *any* money on it, since there are other things with higher ROI
Please NOT rammed through with a no-bid/sweetheart deal with no public comment and dismissal of an concerns.
Otherwise, it won’t be “Yeah, American steel!” It will probably be more “line-pockets-insane-cost-overruns”. $5b sounds like a lot, even $1.7b sounds like a lot. But I promise it can be wasted with poor to terrible outcome, no problem.
That’s of course not counting the opportunity cost of spending *any* money on it, since there are other things with higher ROI