What they don't realize is maintaining infrastructure is expensive.
Sure there are a lot of inefficiencies with need to be fixed, but you can't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Sadly, such is society, and this is a problem that happens everywhere - be they democracies or authoritarian states.
It breaks all our brains too, because that $6 Trillion has very little to do with maintaining infrastructure. The bulk of it is just direct payouts (Social Security, Medicare and defense contracts).
Pretty frustrating that this big number means the government is politically forced to do drastic austerity for things like keeping planes flying safely.
Also, makes DOGE starting at USAID (<1% of budget) look especially incompetent.
that is, for context, about as high as it was in 1960 when the US population was half as large as it is today.