That’s possible. But also it’s possible that decades of underinvestment are catching up.

IDK about the Feds but every contact I have in state government and local government & public functions indicates that both have been shoved from "slowly deteriorating" to "brink of collapse of ability to provide basic service" by the shock of the Covid years and recent wage inflation (which neither's even come close to keeping up with). All were threadbare as hell already, so it was easy for Covid to tear some outright holes.

How do we go about getting entropy placed in the terrorist watch list? Maybe then we could fix some bridges and roads too.