One day, a hundred trillion dollars in debt and 1000's of million dollar restrooms later, the bill will be due and we won't be able to pay.
There is no bureaucracy tasked with building.
Instead there is an executive committee tasked with supervising consultants who are supervising construction firms who are contracted to do the work.
There is no professional project management class in the actual government because "we don't need them when we can save money hiring consultants."
https://www.google.com/search?q=consultants+to+run+infrastru...
Private corporations often gets good value from outsourcing, why can't the government? Corruption, plain and simple.
It's why upstarts (like America was in the 20th and 19th centuries) are so competitive. They have the frontier, emptiness, a blank slate.
"It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.”