But the FDA just issued new rules around PFAS this year and tens of billions were allocated to upgrade water plants to prevent contamination in that omnibus spending bill that just passed. Why do you ask?
Not GP, but I think it would stress the system to the breaking point and force us to fix it. I strongly suspect this would actually be a good thing. If a periodic process is painful for an organization in many cases doing it more frequently will result in the problems being fixed.
There is clearly significant disagreement in the US over the desirable scope of federal powers. Forcing that issue to a head would hopefully result in a more functional system in the end.
There are many dystopian nations where things are as bad as one can imagine (say, North Korea) and nobody has been "forced to fix it."
Perhaps it would... but only after we finish with the cleanup from the inevitable civil war.
Forcing controversial issues to come to a head very often ends badly. Compromise is more likely to lead to stability.