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Congress can’t rebuild US infrastructure until America rebuilds Congress - Vox

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America’s inability to act is killing people.

Politics Why we can’t build America’s inability to act is killing people. by Ezra Klein Apr 22, 2020, 12:50 PM UTC The Capitol building in Washington, DC, on April 19. Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images In a viral essay , venture capitalist Marc Andreessen makes a simple exhortation: It's time to build. Behind the coronavirus crisis, he writes, lies "our widespread inability to build." America has been unable to create enough coronavirus tests, or even enough cotton swabs to fully utilize the tests we do have. We don't have enough ventilators, ICU beds, personal protection equipment. The governme

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