What Happens If The IRA/IIJA Disappear?

In its most recent (2021) Infrastructure Report Card, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) assigned letter grades to each major U.S. infrastructure sector and quantified the investment needed to bring those systems up to a passing level. Although the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) allocate funds toward closing these gaps, the analysis below investigates what would happen—and which funding shortfalls would persist—if a new administration were to repeal either part or all of those federal investments, analyzing the resulting impact on each sector’s condition and overall grade.

The visualizations below allow you to explore how repealing these infrastructure investments would affect different sectors and the broader economy. The data is based on the analysis of ASCE infrastructure grades, funding allocations, and economic projections.

You can interact with these visualizations to:

• Compare current vs. projected infrastructure grades

• See how funding gaps change under different scenarios

• Understand the economic consequences of investment decisions

• Visualize the distribution of infrastructure investments

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