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40% of “Inflation Reduction Act” Projects Delayed or on Hold: Report

Seamus OthotBy Seamus OthotAugust 13, 2024Updated:August 13, 20244 Comments2 Mins Read
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A new report from The Financial Times has revealed the disastrous state of the various industrial and infrastructure projects often celebrated by the Biden-Harris administration as part of the Democrat-led Inflation Reduction and Chips and Science Acts.

[RELATED: Biden’s ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Did Nothing To Bring Down Inflation, Economists Agree…]

The two acts, which Democrats claimed would fight inflation and benefit American infrastructure, assigned hundreds of billions of dollars to various projects, focusing primarily on clean energy and semiconductors.

According to the Financial Times, those projects received approximately $228 billion in taxpayer funding, but while Democrats have touted their success in infrastructure building, nearly 40 percent of those projects are either delayed or on hold.

According to the investigation, which only surveyed projects that have received at least $100 million in taxpayer funding, roughly 40 percent of the projects are either delayed or paused, while the status of projects worth over $30 billion remains unclear.

The total amount of taxpayer money given to projects officially delayed or on hold amounts to a staggering $84 billion, which has now been spent and has yet to yield any benefit whatsoever for the American people.

Fewer than $10 billion worth of projects have been completed.

Despite the lack of actual implementation involved in the projects, Democrats have nonetheless pointed to the IRA as among the Biden-Harris policies that have somewhat tempered the rate of increase of inflation.

The projects investigated by The Financial Times do not account for the total amount of funding issued under the two acts, with the total amount coming in at roughly $400 billion.

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Seamus Othot

Seamus Othot is a reporter for The Maine Wire. He grew up in New Hampshire, and graduated from The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, where he was able to spend his time reading the great works of Western Civilization. He can be reached at seamus@themainewire.com

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<span class="dsq-postid" data-dsqidentifier="30046 https://www.themainewire.com/?p=30046">4 Comments

  1. Fatui Harbinger on August 13, 2024 4:49 PM

    watayou wanna bet the moneys already gone.

  2. Sandy Feet on August 14, 2024 5:19 AM

    All MY money is gone. Good picture of three of the four “MAINE BRIGHT BOULBS” Only the GOV. is missing.
    Today is the day to remember the Afghans hang off a US Transport Plaine.as Joe got out of Afghanistan and the VP was last to leave the room. What a bunch of losers who represent me.
    I have been had!!!

  3. Rooster on August 14, 2024 7:09 AM

    They are smiling because they just screwed the taxpayers once again, while lining their pockets.

  4. sandy feet on August 14, 2024 7:29 AM

    “Fewer than $10 billion worth of projects have been completed.”
    Just more BS by Maines’ BRITE BULBS” Democrats to get your vote.

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