Listen to a reading of this article: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has continued to pour gasoline on the foreign policy dumpster fire that is her planned visit to Taiwan next month, now reportedly encouraging other members of congress to come along for the ride.
I would be shocked if any sizeable portion of that money goes to building anything instead of stock buybacks. We've seen this same song and dance with the telecomm industry putting down fiber and the airlines during COVID.
This song and dance goes back decades. I still remember the first one I learned about was when the government gave billions to airlines in the 70s in order to prevent them from doing mass layoffs, and the airlines did the layoffs anyway.