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It's not supposed to cover the entire thing. Actual estimates for the whole thing are at $20 to $30 billion. This is just the latest round of funding for the pipe replacement, not the entire thing. The Biden administration has secured $15 billion in funding for lead pipe replacement to date.
The article posted above reads: "The $2.6 billion is the latest disbursement by the Biden administration for lead pipes in the $50 billion from the 2021 infrastructure law for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure." But you decided to read one paragraph in (which could I guess be further than average) and write a long-winded outraged comment that it isn't enough.
I don't support Israel's genocide in Gaza either or the Biden administration's ongoing support of it (I think all of that military aid should be going to Ukraine instead, for starters), but you really just shitted up the thread by deciding that reading past the first paragraph was too hard, went off on an unrelated whataboutism tangent, and then when it was pointed out you were wrong, you decided to be a snarky, immature jackass about it instead of just saying "oh, okay".
Oh, I think I understand now: you think that $15 billion is all there is and ever can be because you don't understand that "a decade" is 10 years and consequently that the EPA has time to get more funding for this over a period of – again – 10 years.
Since I know reading is hard for you, here's something to enhance your comprehension of that $15 billion figure: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/so_far
Edit: and you never answered: where on god's green Earth is 700 million coming from? Milwaukee? Because that's one city, and cities have different amounts of lead pipes.
Yeah, I didn't initially recognize the $700 million not because I hadn't read the article but because my brain genuinely couldn't reach the conclusion quickly enough that you were actually so mind-numbingly inept to take one city, Milwaukee, and say "oh, okay, I guess we can extrapolate that to every city now" (bearing in mind that actual estimates already exist). I guess the US is just several dozen Milwaukees in a trenchcoat.
And yes, mhm, that vegan troll sub. That's us I guess. Hi.